git: 'credential-windcred' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

[Szauka]

• I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

• Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
  - 64-bit

$ git --version --build-options

git version 2.18.0.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: cd1a74fc9dc8a07626c216940db9a51f25206e03
sizeof-long: 4

• Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
  - Windows 10 Pro
  - Version 1709
  - 64-bit

$ cmd.exe /c ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.551]

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?

# One of the following:
> type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
$ cat /etc/install-options.txt

Editor Option: VisualStudioCode
Path Option: Cmd
SSH Option: OpenSSH
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFAlways
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Disabled

Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

Bash

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
  Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
  this will help us understand the issue.

git pull [<repository>]

• What actually happened instead?

I get this.

git: 'credential-windcred' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

The most similar command is
        credential-wincred

It does look like it's pooling though.

[dscho]

Does git config --show-origin credential.helper say that windcred should be used perchance? If so, this is configured incorrectly (but not by Git for Windows' installer: it does not try to set this).

[Szauka]

Hi @dscho,

git config --show-origin credential.helper returns store.

Is that correct?

[dscho]

git config --show-origin credential.helper returns store.

Is that correct?

In that case, git-credential-store should have been used. So I am puzzled why your system talks about credential-windcred...

[Szauka]

Solved it!

I found that there was another .gitconfig file that will be used apart from the default one and this one had the credential.helper set to windcred. Setting it to manager solved the issue.

Used git config --list --show-origin to find all the config files.

Thanks @dscho for pointing me in the corret direction.

[dscho]

I am glad you found it!