git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager

Features

• Git Credential Helpers - Implements a standardized interface for Git clients to automate the retrieval of authentication secrets.
• Remote Repository Authentication - Automates the storage and retrieval of authentication tokens for remote Git repositories.
• Credential Vaults - Interfaces with the host operating system's built-in encrypted password manager to persist authentication secrets.
• Multi-Factor Authentication - Supports secondary verification flows during the authentication process for remote hosting providers.
• OAuth Authentication - Handles the exchange of authorization codes for long-lived access tokens via OAuth 2.0 flows.
• Repository Credentials - Automates the storage and retrieval of authentication tokens for repositories to eliminate manual logins.
• Native OS Vault Interfaces - Interfaces with native system password managers to ensure authentication secrets are encrypted at rest.
• Secret Management Systems - Provides a system for securely storing and managing authentication secrets using native operating system vaults.
• Inter-Process Communication Bridges - Implements a cross-platform message bridge to synchronize authentication state between a host and a Linux subsystem.
• Cross-OS Credential Bridges - Provides a communication bridge to share secure credentials between a host OS and a Linux subsystem.
• Traffic Routing Proxies - Directs authentication network traffic through intermediary corporate proxy servers to bypass restricted environments.
• Credential Bridging - Enables the sharing of secure credentials between a Windows host and a Linux subsystem for synchronized repository access.
• Enterprise Authentication - Provides enterprise-grade authentication flows and proxy routing to satisfy corporate security policies for repository access.
• Identity-Based Access Brokers - Brokers access to repositories by integrating with the system account manager to satisfy corporate security policies.
• Proxy Gateway Integrations - Routes authentication traffic through corporate proxy gateways to bypass network restrictions.
• Token-Based Authentication - Handles OAuth-based token exchange to verify user identity and obtain long-lived access tokens from remote providers.
• User Account Management - Manages the binding of user accounts to specific Azure Repos organization URLs and maintains authentication caches.
• Authentication Provider Plugins - Uses a plugin-based architecture to separate authentication logic for different hosting platforms into modular handlers.
• Git Tools - Handles secure Git credential management.

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