Can I see the Git passwords stored using credential helper?

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Longtime back I have used credential.helper to store my password, by using the following command

git config credential.helper store

and from then my pulls are working fine, now, unfortunately, I forgot my password. Is there any way I can look at the data what credential helper stored in my system?

1 Answer

5 years ago by

Yes, credential helper stores your passwords in a file name .git-credentials which can be located at the root of the user folder.
Run the following command to see your credentials.

cat ~/.git-credentials
5 years ago by Karthik Divi