How to save a GitHub password globally on your personal device using Git

gitSaveGHCred.sh

# Attention: This method saves the credentials in plaintext on your PC's disk. Everyone on your computer can access it, e.g. malicious NPM modules.

# Run

git config --global credential.helper store

# Then

git pull

# Provide a username and password and those details will then be remembered later. The credentials are stored in a file on the disk, with the disk permissions of "just user readable/writable" but still in plaintext.

# If you want to change the password later

git pull

# Will fail, because the password is incorrect, git then removes the offending user+password from the ~/.git-credentials file, so now re-run

git pull

# to provide a new password so it works as earlier.

# SRC: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35942890/2129978