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I really like the git package based on MinGit with busybox. But I had a hard time using it as Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows is not set as credential.helper by default.

I submitted a feature request on git-for-windows tracker. But it may be worth adding a patch to achieve this on the recipe.

For info: The command to set the helper is

git config credential.helper manager

Even after disabling the credential manager modal dialog:

git config --global credential.modalPrompt never
$env:GCM_INTERACTIVE='NEVER'
$env:GCM_PRESERVE_CREDS='TRUE'

...cloning a repo still fails from within a container:

C:\> git clone https://github.stanwell.com/Trading/skeleton.git
Cloning into 'skeleton'...
bash: Unhandled device /dev/tty

cat: write error: Bad file descriptor
error: failed to execute prompt script (exit code 1)
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.stanwell.com': No error

Using the actual Windows exe installer this works and prompts for the username and password which are then stored.

Mostly a note to self to investigate further as it would be good if the conda installed git worked well in Windows Containers.

A recent StackOverflow question pointed out trying to use the osxkeychain credential manager via

git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

fails when pushing. Apparently the build step for this component has been incorporated into Conda Forge, but this fork has yet to merge it.

man pages aren't included in the main channel. Fixed in conda-forge by conda-forge#65