Attention: git-credential-libsecret for storing git passwords in the GNOME keyring is now an extra package

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Background

If you are following this or similar guides to store your git passwords in the GNOME keyring, with a recent update you may experience problems, because since Fedora’s build of git v2.25.2 (git v2.25.2-1) there is a big change as you can read in the changelog here:

* Wed Feb 19 2020 Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> - 2.25.1-2
[…]
- split libsecret credential helper into a subpackage (#1804741)

The reason for this is that it apparently bloated the whole dependency chain.

Problem

The apparent problem you’ll notice/see is that you cannot authenticate anymore when git pull’ing (for private repos) or git push’ing. git will show you an error like this one:

$ git push
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-credential-libsecretx get: /usr/libexec/git-core/git-credential-libsecret: No such file or directory
Username for 'https://github.com':

Solution

In any case, what that means is that if you want to continue using it, you (just) need to install it again manually:

$ sudo dnf install git-credential-libsecret

Or, on Silverblue:

$ rpm-ostree install git-credential-libsecret

The entry in your .gitconfig file can then stay the same:

[credential]
	helper = libsecret

Edit: If that does not work, the full path to the file is /usr/libexec/git-core/git-credential-libsecret.

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@rugk you can also use just helper = libsecret instead of the full path in the config file.

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Okay interesting, thanks, I did change it in the post.

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