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# Caching Credentials
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When public key authentication isn't an option, you may find yourself typing
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your password over and over when pushing to and pulling from a remote git
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repository. This can get tedious. You can get around it by configuring git
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to cache your credentials. Add the following lines to the `.git/config` file
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of the particular project.
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```
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[credential]
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helper = cache --timeout=300
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```
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This will tell git to cache your credentials for 5 minutes. Use a much
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larger number of seconds (e.g. 604800) to cache for longer.
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Alternatively, you can execute the command from the command line like so:
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```bash
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$ git config credential.helper 'cache --timeout=300'
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```
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[source](http://git-scm.com/docs/git-credential-cache)
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