You might have complained about this before - entering your username and password each time you access the repository can be a hassle and can interrupt your workflow if it takes too long. But it doesn't need to be that way.
We will be covering one of the methods available to us - git credential cache.
Note: Please follow the security policies of your place of work/study.
We can use git credential cache to store our username and password.
Attention: This method saves the credentials in plaintext on your PC's disk. Everyone on your computer can access it, e.g. malicious NPM modules.
If we wish to, we can store the credentials for every repository we are working with using one simple command:
$ git config --global credential.helper cache
Reminder: Please follow the security policies of your place of work/study.
We can store the credentials for the repository we are working with using one simple command, similar to before:
$ git config credential.helper cache
Reminder: Please follow the security policies of your place of work/study.
If we do not specify a length of time to store our credentials, they can potentially be stored forever. However, we can determine how long they will be kept in memory using this command:
git config credential.helper 'cache --timeout=<timeout>'
Using the helper, the credentials will never touch the disk and will be erased after the specified timeout. The default value is 900 seconds (15 minutes).