Installer git-credential-libsecret avec Homebrew, apk, dnf, zypper

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• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
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• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• git-credential-libsecret

Historique du projet

The helper entered Git's contrib area in 2016. Its initial Git commit describes it as based on the earlier GNOME Keyring helper, replacing the deprecated, GNOME-specific libgnome-keyring library with libsecret and the XDG Secret Service API.

Later Git-side changes kept the helper aligned with Git's credential protocol. A 2017 change made it unlock locked secrets through the Secret Service interface, and 2023 changes added storage for password expiry and OAuth refresh-token attributes while preserving compatibility with older stored credentials.

Historique d'adoption

Git's credential-helper documentation lists git-credential-libsecret alongside macOS Keychain and Windows Credential Manager as the Linux secure persistent storage option. That placement made it part of the standard Git credential-helper ecosystem rather than a standalone password-manager integration.

Linux package managers expose it as a separate package because the helper depends on libsecret and desktop secret-service libraries that are not always part of a minimal Git build.

Modes d'utilisation

Practitioners configure it through Git's `credential.helper` setting, usually in `~/.gitconfig`, `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config`, or a repository `.git/config`. After configuration, Git invokes `git credential-libsecret` through the credential-helper protocol during HTTP authentication.

Its use case is workstation Git over HTTPS: the first authentication stores a username and password, personal access token, or generated token in the desktop secret service, and later fetch, pull, and push operations retrieve it without prompting.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package maintainers, git-credential-libsecret is a small but important split from the main Git package. It is tied to desktop-secret-service dependencies, so distributing it separately keeps headless or minimal Git installs lean while giving Linux desktop users OS-integrated credential storage.

It also illustrates Git's extension model: a helper in `contrib/credential` can become a distro-facing executable without changing Git's core credential protocol.

Chronologie

• 2016: Git adds `contrib/credential/libsecret` as a libsecret replacement for the GNOME Keyring helper.
• 2017: The helper learns to unlock locked Secret Service items when reading credentials.
• 2023: The helper stores Git credential attributes such as password expiry and OAuth refresh tokens in a backwards-compatible secret format.
• 2025: Git fixes compilation of the libsecret helper in contrib.

Related projects

• git-credential-cache and git-credential-store are Git's built-in generic helpers; libsecret fills the Linux secure-storage role.
• git-credential-osxkeychain and git-credential-wincred are the analogous platform-specific helpers for macOS and Windows.
• Git Credential Manager and git-credential-oauth are related helpers that generate or manage credentials through broader authentication workflows.

Sources

• https://git-scm.com/doc/credential-helpers lists git-credential-libsecret as the Linux secure persistent storage helper.
• https://git-scm.com/docs/gitcredentials documents Git credential helpers, configuration, and helper invocation semantics.
• https://github.com/git/git documents the upstream Git source history for the libsecret helper.