I keep having to re-add my Github token everyday

[psclkhoury]

Everyday when I do a pull, Sublime merge asks me again to input my username and token. And then it will work until the next day. My token expiry is in 4 years.

[dpjohnst]

Hi @psclkhoury,

Thanks for reaching out and sorry to hear you're seeing this issue.

Password caching is typically the responsibility of the credential manager configured in the .gitconfig. This will depend on what platform you're on. Could you confirm what operating system you're running (e.g. Windows, Linux, MacOS)?

Additionally, could you please share your Sublime Merge debug information: Debug Information The Sublime Merge debug information can be used to narrow down the cause of an issue. It can be collected with the following steps:

1. Open Sublime Merge
2. Open the repository where the bug occurs
3. Navigate to Help > Debug Information via the application menu
4. Before sharing, please redact any information that's sensitive such as file paths, git user information, remote URLs etc.

Thanks, - Dylan

[psclkhoury]

I am running MacOs and this is the Debug info:

=== App Version Information ===
Build: 2083

=== Git Version Information ===
Using Git: git (system)
git version 2.39.2 (Apple Git-143)
PATH: /opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/share/dotnet:~/.dotnet/tools:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin (from shell)
environment variables loaded using: /bin/zsh -l

=== Browse Page Information ===
HEAD: 5c651199b1f658d395349de6522980c065014bae
Is in merge: 0
Is in cherry_pick: 0
Is in rebase: 0
Is in revert: 0

=== Git Status Information ===

=== Our Status Information ===

=== Git Config Information ===
branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master
branch.master.remote=origin
commit.template=/Users/myusername/.stCommitMsg
core.bare=false
core.editor=code --wait --new-window
core.excludesfile=/Users/myusername/.gitignore_global
core.filemode=true
core.ignorecase=true
core.logallrefupdates=true
core.precomposeunicode=true
core.repositoryformatversion=0
credential.helper=osxkeychain
diff.tool=kdiff3
difftool.kdiff3.path=/Applications/kdiff3.app/Contents/MacOS/kdiff3
difftool.sourcetree.cmd=opendiff "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
difftool.sourcetree.path=
includeif.gitdir:~/workspace/src/gitlab.com/my_company/.path=~/.my_company.gitconfig
init.defaultbranch=main
merge.ff=false
merge.tool=kdiff3
mergetool.kdiff3.path=/Applications/kdiff3.app/Contents/MacOS/kdiff3
mergetool.keepbackup=false
mergetool.keeptemporaries=false
mergetool.prompt=false
mergetool.sourcetree.cmd=/Applications/Sourcetree.app/Contents/Resources/opendiff-w.sh "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" -ancestor "$BASE" -merge "$MERGED"
mergetool.sourcetree.trustexitcode=true
pull.ff=only
push.autosetupremote=true
push.default=upstream
push.followtags=true
remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
remote.origin.url=https://github.com/Username/MyRepo.git
user.email=my_company_username@work.com
user.name=My Name

=== Our Config Information ===
Git Config Path Information
Using config path: /etc/gitconfig
Using config path: /Users/myusername/.config/git/config
Using config path: /Users/myusername/.gitconfig
Using config path: /Users/myusername/Repos/MyRepo/.git/config

Our config output is different to the Git config output
branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master
branch.master.remote=origin
commit.template=/Users/myusername/.stCommitMsg
core.bare=false
core.editor=code --wait --new-window
core.excludesfile=/Users/myusername/.gitignore_global
core.filemode=true
core.ignorecase=true
core.logallrefupdates=true
core.precomposeunicode=true
core.repositoryformatversion=0
diff.tool=kdiff3
difftool.kdiff3.path=/Applications/kdiff3.app/Contents/MacOS/kdiff3
difftool.sourcetree.cmd=opendiff "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
difftool.sourcetree.path=
includeif.gitdir:~/workspace/src/gitlab.com/my_company/.path=~/.my_company.gitconfig
merge.ff=false
merge.tool=kdiff3
mergetool.kdiff3.path=/Applications/kdiff3.app/Contents/MacOS/kdiff3
mergetool.keepbackup=false
mergetool.keeptemporaries=false
mergetool.prompt=false
mergetool.sourcetree.cmd=/Applications/Sourcetree.app/Contents/Resources/opendiff-w.sh "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" -ancestor "$BASE" -merge "$MERGED"
mergetool.sourcetree.trustexitcode=true
pull.ff=only
push.autosetupremote=true
push.default=upstream
push.followtags=true
remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
remote.origin.url=https://github.com/Username/MyRepo.git
user.email=my_company_username@work.com
user.name=My Name

=== Git Attributes Information ===
git check_attr --all output

=== Our Modified Files Newline Normalisation and EOL Information ===

=== Our Modified Files Flag Information ===
Ignoring symlinks: 0

[dpjohnst]

Hi @psclkhoury,

Thanks for sharing this - you can either:

• store your credentials in the OSX Keychain and configure Git to use the OSX Keychain (git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain)

• use Git Credential Manager (see: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git/caching-your-github-credentials-in-git)

Let me know if this works for you, or if you'd like additional information on configuring either of these options.

Kind regards, - Dylan from Sublime HQ