List git credentials from credential helper

Question

Seems like a simple problem but I can't find a solution, in my git config credentials stored in the cache(username and personal access token) the git config --list returns the credential info like this

credential.helper=cache

Is it possible to see the credentials from the cache, I tried the following three locations

(repository_home) /.git/config - there is no info about the username and password
~/.gitconfig - file not found in the repo folder

Ahh you are using cache method. `cache` Cache credentials in memory for a short period of time. If you are looking towards storing on disk you should use `store` method instead. — Vijay, Aug 04 '20 at 17:55
Yes memory I don't want to change I just want to see the creds — shellakkshellu, Aug 04 '20 at 17:57

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 04 '20 at 19:18

From git-credential git credential fill could be helpful here, you need to input host and protocol details to get username and password.

$ git credential fill
protocol=https
host=example.com

Output:

protocol=https
host=example.com
username=bob
password=secret

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 04 '20 at 23:51

It is possible for you to query a particular set of credentials from the credential helper, but there isn't a part of the credential helper protocol that allows you to query all credentials. In general, this is hard, because a credential helper can respond to all credentials that match a pattern, such as https://*.example.org or https://github.com/bk2204/*, and that pattern need not match any simple pattern that can be expressed (for example, the helper could have intimate knowledge about which repositories a user has access to based on LDAP).

For the cache credential helper, there isn't a way to enumerate those credentials.

If you want to look up the credentials for a particular URL, the easiest way to do that is like this:

echo url=https://github.com/git/git.git | git credential fill

That will print the credentials that any credential helper knows about. You can see more about the protocol in the gitcredentials(7) man page.

List git credentials from credential helper

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