git-credential-manager VS direnv

You can still use HTTPS, just not username/password as authentication. Personally, I think using HTTPS Git Credential Manager is simpler than SSH, as GCM allows you to use GitHub OAuth in your browser to sign in.

Hi, use git Credential Manager https://github.com/git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager been using it with Github and Azure Repo. Make sure that you update your machine global git config to use it.

Download Git for Windows and choose Git Credential Manager (GCM) as credential helper on the installation steps.

This is an application indepentend from git, so best use its channels. A quick search through their Github repo found this issue: https://github.com/GitCredentialManager/git-credential-manager/issues/899

Download the GCM Deb file from here - https://github.com/GitCredentialManager/git-credential-manager/releases/download/v2.0.877/gcm-linux_amd64.2.0.877.deb

When working with external Git repositories it is best practice to use multi-factor HTTPS authentication. It is best to leave the default option by using the built in Git Credential Manager.

(We haven't started using Git Credential Manager Core yet and I haven't done any research into it, so I don't know if it'll throw a wrench in things.)

I also made the export diff configurable, motivated by this post: https://github.com/direnv/direnv/pull/1233

Nice.

For years I've been using [direnv](https://direnv.net/) for this, setting environment variables which git picks up. This looks like a more feature complete equivalent, although to be honest I only really need switching of committer email and the SSH key used.

Direnv, for the uninitiated, loads and unloads environment variables when directories are entered and exited. Under every project folder there is a `$PROJ_DIR/.envrc` which contains:

buffer-env: A pure-Elisp version of the direnv utility. Useful to make Emacs aware of Python virtualenvs (which, judging by the questions posted here, is unfortunately still a complication for a lot of people). Similar to (and inspired by) envrc, but doesn't require the direnv program.

You can look at direnv to see this in action as they wrote shell hooks that get loaded into the shell profile and are executed on every prompt. https://direnv.net/

Yes, most Nix users employ https://direnv.net or the equivalent for your IDE of choice. Emacs for instance has https://github.com/purcell/envrc which set per-buffer variables.

The more applications I write, the more I tend to avoid typical config files in favor of using direnv [0] to set environment variables.

[0] https://direnv.net/