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I use both MacOS and Linux. On MacOS I use I cannot use two different .gitconfigs and prefer not to use environment variables. I would prefer a way to do this all in one file. I tried to use shell commands to change the binary, but when run exclusively via the shell Is Here are my configs for reference [credential "https://github.com"]
helper =
helper = !/bin/sh -c 'test "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin" && /opt/homebrew/bin/gh auth git-credential || /usr/bin/gh auth git-credential'Macbook ~/github> /opt/homebrew/bin/gh auth git-credential
accepts 1 arg(s), received 0
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Hey @C-Loftus, thanks for the question. I've got a couple of questions:
What are you referring to as default, in this case?
As far as I can tell, we always require a single argument for What, exactly, are you expecting to happen? It'd be useful to have some more direct context around how you're trying to use this, like output when the behavior is as expected and how you're invoking that behavior. |
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Thank you for your reply. When I say the default, I was referring to the default behavior after running I am expecting to be able to switch the path to the |
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As far as I can tell, you're right that Regardless, I wouldn't expect What I think is happening under the hood is that whenever Thus, I think your approach of adding that bash string to the helper should work as expected, as it will call the proper location of 🤔 Out of curiosity, what's your setup like that uses both MacOS and Linux? I understand that homebrew is a package manager for mac and thus won't work with Linux, but MacOS is Unix-like and can run nearly identically to Linux. I suspect you could get away with the same env setup on both MacOS and Linux if you default to your Linux setup on mac, just without the ability to leverage homebrew while in MacOS land. There are always tradeoffs 😅 |
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Sorry I was trying to get at the fact that
That makes sense, although I am a bit confused since
Unfortunately it does not work. It throws an error saying
I use homebrew for package management on MacOS but not on Linux. I can't install a move a binary to /usr/bin/gh on MacOS to my understanding (that's where the Linux binary is stored) but I can on Linux. I believe that is because of system integrity protection on MacOS. Perhaps the bigger need here is for an easier cross platform dotfile manager. Regardless thank you for the help. Perhaps this is getting too in the weeds outside of the scope of |
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I know I'm necro-posting, but, in case anyone else is confused, the reason is that the implicit arg isn't "magically" passed to [credential "https://github.com"]
helper =
helper = !/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/gh auth git-credential'becomes like this cmd: /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/gh auth git-credential' "$OPERATION"So the implicit arg is passed to The [credential "https://github.com"]
helper =
helper = "!f() { [ \"$(uname -s)\" = Darwin ] && /opt/homebrew/bin/gh auth git-credential \"$1\" || /usr/bin/gh auth git-credential \"$1\"; }; f" |
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Hi, I got the same scenario - working on both MacOS & Linux and want to hold a single [user]
name = galah92
email = my@email.com
[credential "https://github.com"]
# helper = !/opt/homebrew/bin/gh auth git-credential
helper = !gh auth git-credential
[credential "https://gist.github.com"]
# helper = !/opt/homebrew/bin/gh auth git-credential
helper = !gh auth git-credentialWhy does Thanks. |
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Good question. There's a pretty good explanation here in the codebase where we try to find the However, I think it should work for relative paths the same as absolute paths. In fact, you can easily set up any credential helper for $ GH_PATH=./gh gh auth setup-git
$ cat .gitconfig
[user]
name = username
email = my@email.com
[credential "https://github.com"]
helper = !./gh auth git-credentialI can't vouch for the effectiveness of this without using the same Hope this was helpful. If you end up toying around with it and get it working, let me know! |
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I understand. So I tried it, but wasn't able to reproduce this (from the link you shared):
Meaning, |
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Huh, interesting... Maybe they did 🤷 Sounds like its working for you now, though 👍 |
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Check out git conditionals. |
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As far as I can tell, you're right that
gh auth setup-gitdoesn't require an argument, however,gh auth git-credentialdoes.Regardless, I wouldn't expect
$ gh auth git-credentialto succeed on its own in the shell or otherwise.What I think is happening under the hood is that whenever
gitneeds to access credentials while running withingh, it'll use this helper, effectively substituting its owngit credentialcalls withgh auth git-credential. Whatever is appended to that call gets passed throughgh auth git-credentialas the argument.Thus, I think your approach of adding that bash string to the helper should work as expected, as it will call the proper location of
gh auth git-credential…