fatal: credential-cache unavailable; no unix socket support

[jeroen]

• I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

• Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ git --version --build-options
git version 2.42.0.windows.2
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 2f819d1670fff9a1818f63b6722e9959405378e3
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
feature: fsmonitor--daemon

• Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ cmd.exe /c ver

Happens for all Windows

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?

defaults

Details

If we run git help -a we see that credential-cache is available:

git help -a 
....
   credential-cache        Helper to temporarily store passwords in memory

However, if we select it, the credential manager just returns errors all the time:

fatal: credential-cache unavailable; no unix socket support

This is something that changed relatively recently.

[rimrul]

Duplicate of #3892