git-credential-manager VS tos

Compare git-credential-manager vs tos and see what are their differences.

git-credential-manager

Secure, cross-platform Git credential storage with authentication to GitHub, Azure Repos, and other popular Git hosting services. (by git-ecosystem)

tos

DigitalOcean's Terms of Service agreement (by digitalocean)
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git-credential-manager tos
35 1
5,667 37
3.7% -
8.8 0.0
6 days ago 9 months ago
C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
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git-credential-manager

Posts with mentions or reviews of git-credential-manager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-03.

tos

Posts with mentions or reviews of tos. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-12.
  • GitHub: Git password authentication is shutting down
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Aug 2021
    It may be meant for software developers but has legitimate value in other domains. For example, DigitalOcean has their legal team use it as a way of providing diffs on their terms of service and other policies. This type of use case is where it benefits everyone, in my opinion, to reduce the friction to get started.

    https://github.com/digitalocean/tos

    There are plenty of text file versioning use cases I think, from configuration files for system administrators to LaTeX papers for science students who could benefit and should have an easy path to using it.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing git-credential-manager and tos you can also consider the following projects:

lazygit - simple terminal UI for git commands

repo

wsl2-ssh-pageant - bridge between windows pageant and wsl2

tokens

gitbrute - brute-force a git commit hash

windows-fido-bridge - An OpenSSH SK middleware that allows you to use a FIDO/U2F security key (e.g. a YubiKey) to SSH into a remote server from WSL or Cygwin.

Git-Credential-Manager-for-Mac-and-Linux - Git Credential Manager for Mac and Linux stores credentials for Git version control securely. Provides secure logon for Visual Studio Team Services (visualstudio.com).

git-link - Emacs package to get the GitHub/Bitbucket/GitLab/... URL for a buffer location

pass-git-helper - A git credential helper interfacing with pass, the standard unix password manager.