Make a git repository use other credentials than others on the same session (using Tortoise)

Question

Is it possible to have one repository use a different set of credentials for pushing than others on the same machine, with the same session?

Use case: I am using a friend's computer, my friend contributes to project A using wincred session-wide, and I would like to contribute to project B without messing up his computer (possibly using wincred repository-wide). I trust my friend and his computer with my password on origin

I am using an up-to-date tortoise git 2.5 with git for windows 2.14 and wincred

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 13 '18 at 00:26

In your second repo, you can either:

enable Git Credential Manager (after installing it), and use as an https URL: https://yourlogin@server.com/auser/gitrepo
```
git remote set-url origin https://yourlogin@server.com/auser/gitrepo
git ls-remote
```

That will attempts to contact https://yourlogin@server.com and will ask (and cache) your credentials.

or you could switch to SSH (no more "manager"). You would then need to have a ~/.ssh/config correctly configured (provided you can/have register(ed) your SSH public key on the server.

Make a git repository use other credentials than others on the same session (using Tortoise)

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