Hi, On 2021-05-21 01:11:26 +0430, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm missing some basic information: > - what platform are you running on? I'm using Arch Linux with Linux v5.12.5-arch1-1. > - what commands did you use to install Git? `sudo pacman -S git` > - what are you trying to do? That can help us with understanding the > problem or giving better advice tailored to the use case. The netrc > credential helper is mostly meant as a demo, since libcurl supports > ~/.netrc on its own already. I wanted to use `git-credential-netrc.perl` to use `.authinfo.gpg` as git credential. The `gitcredentials` manual said use: `git config --global credential-helper foo` for using credential helpers. It also mentioned that `git credential-` gets prepended to the external helpers. So I expected: `git config --global credential-helper 'netrc'` to work. I can use it as a helper if I use an absolute path: '/usr/share/git/credential/netrc/git-credential-netrc.perl' After looking at the `PKGBUILD` file in Arch Linux's git repository, I found out that they are not making "netrc". https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/4864e39da0bc99e373f3cb728272a93d66b58cd6/trunk/PKGBUILD#L63-L64 So this is not a bug. As Jeff King mentioned as well. I should have checked the `PKGBUILD`. The output of `git --exec-path` is `/usr/lib/git-core`. And there are other helpers there(made by Arch Linux). This is the output of `lsd /usr/lib/git-core/ | rg credential`: git-credential git-credential-cache git-credential-cache--daemon git-credential-gnome-keyring git-credential-libsecret git-credential-store I expected the third-party helpers to be in the output of `git help -a` as mentioned in the manual. They are not in the `PATH`, but they are in git's `exec-path`. So shouldn't they be printed in the help output?
