How can I setup GIT on my machine where I don't need to re-enter the password after every check-in?

Question

I was trying this on Mac OS X and got the below error:

~ % git config --global credential.helper store

warning: credential.helper has multiple values

error: cannot overwrite multiple values with a single value

       Use a regexp, --add or --replace-all to change credential.helper.

Answer 1

To fix the credential.helper error:
By default, git on Mac OS has osxkeychain as a credential helper, so when you invoked
git config --global credential.helper store
for the first time, it added the value and when you invoked it again, credential.helper then had multiple values set for it. So to clear the error, run

git config --unset-all credential.helper

and you can verify that it was restored to the default configuration by using

git config --get-all credential.helper

To setup git to not require a password:

I would suggest eschewing the credential helper method and to instead use the SSH protocol with public key authentication as a better practice.