在 WSL2 上找不到 Git 凭据管理器

Question

Error Message

/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core/git-credential-manager-core.exe get: 1: /mnt/c/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core/git-credential-manager-core.exe: not found

Problem Story

I found this problem then git ask me for a username and password to authenticate to GitHub whenever I'm doing git activity with GitHub remote repository from my local WSL2 environment.

It is very annoying to do this every time, then I search and follow several tutorials I can find on the internet, but everything just led me to the same problem again, these tutorial is not solving my problem at all.

Every tutorial tells me that I should add the GCM directory in the Windows environment for the git in the WSL2 environment. Theoretically, it should solve my problem, but it is not.

Answer 1

Solution

Execute this command on WSL2:

git config --global credential.helper "/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core/git-credential-wincred.exe"

Explanation

I think git-credential-manager-core.exe has already been renamed to git-credential-wincred.exe but many tutorials on the internet are already deprecated because they gave us the old name of this executable file. This is my biggest problem because following any tutorial just makes me find the same error over time.

Answer 2

I faced a similar issue on WSL2 with Windows 10 when I upgraded Git for Windows to one of the recent versions (2.37.0 I think). This is because the git-credential-manager-core.exe has been moved to a different folder.

Solution:

To fix this issue, run the following command from your bash command line:

git config --global credential.helper "/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Git/mingw64/bin/git-credential-manager-core.exe"

Note: If you have Git installed in a different drive/folder - update the path accordingly.

Answer 3

I had the same problem, what I did was identify the file: C:/Users/name.user/.gitconfig

I open it with a text edit and did the following

--DELETE

[credential]
    helper = wincred
    helper = 
    helper = C:/Program\\ Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core/git-credential-manager-core.exe
-------

--Change correct repo
[credential "https://xyz.azure.com"]
------
Result:
[user]
    name = 'name.user'
    email = 'name.user@email.mx'
[credential https://myrepo.azure.com"]
    useHttpPath = true

Answer 4

I experienced similar issues as well, with WSL 2 and fresh install of Git for Windows 2.38.1.

Turned out the path I got from the tutorials was wrong for me. In my case the correct command was:

git config --global credential.helper "/mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Git/mingw32/libexec/git-core/git-credential-wincred.exe"