On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 16:46 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:20:50PM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: > > > On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 15:34 +0300, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > > > This is based on the existing gnome-keyring helper, but instead of > > > libgnome-keyring (which was specific to GNOME and is deprecated), it > > > uses libsecret which can support other implementations of XDG Secret > > > Service API. > > > > > > Passes t0303-credential-external.sh. > > > > When setting credential.helper to this helper, I get the following output: > > > > $ git clone https://private-repo-url-removed private > > Cloning into 'private'... > > /home/dennis/code/git/contrib/credential/libsecret/ get: 1: > > /home/dennis/code/git/contrib/credential/libsecret/ get: > > /home/dennis/code/git/contrib/credential/libsecret/: Permission denied > > > > Looks suboptimal. Am I holding it wrong? > > That looks like a directory name in your error message. How did you set > up credential.helper?
Doh. I had done git config --global credential.helper ~/code/git/contrib/credential/libsecret/ After doing it properly (actual path to the binary), it works just fine. The error message above is slightly suboptimal, but there's no solution for pebkac. D.
