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Git credentials are supplied by an inline helper instead of a script

Under the hood
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Git

Remote git operations no longer write a credential helper script to disk, passing an inline function instead.

What

Remote and cloud git operations no longer write a helper script to disk. They pass an inline shell function on the command line that emits a fixed username and reads the password from a named environment variable, after clearing any existing credential helper for the remote.

Evidence

printf 'username=unused

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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