Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows

As its name clearly suggests, Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows is a specialized and useful piece of software that makes it as easy as possible for you to securely store Git credentials and conveniently use them for multiple authentication sessions.

In just a few words, this utility stores your credentials within the Windows Credential Store and makes it as easy as possible for you to fetch, clone, push repos without manually having to enter them each time.

Before we go even further, the first thing you should know is the fact that the application requires Git for Windows in order to work, as well as .NET Framework 4.5.1 or later. Secondly, you should know that this application does not have a user interface per se, as it actually works under-the-radar.

This said, whenever it senses that an authentication is needed, the utility automatically opens a Command Prompt window, required for entering your official Microsoft Account or Azure Active Directory credentials. Please note that once the credentials have been entered, the app automatically stores them.

This is a good time to point out that the credential manager offers multi-factor authentication support for Visual Studio Team Services, two-factor authentication support for GitHub, support for Kerberos authentication and also several options for building agent optimization.

Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows can help you generate personal access tokens for the previously mentioned platforms and offer support for a non-interactive mode within Visual Studio Team Services.

Taking everything into consideration, Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows is a very useful tool specially designed for developers or users that have to deal with Visual Studio Team Services and GitHub authentications on a daily basis.

Since the project is open source and community-powered, we are hoping that new and exciting features, as well as support for other Git and web-based hosting services will be added in the near future.

If you want, you can also contribute by submitting bugs, helping verify fixes, reviewing code changes other similar work. Just visit the project's official GitHub repo.