s, as well as some
features to avoid inputting these credentials repeatedly.</p>
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<h2 id="_requesting_credentials">REQUESTING CREDENTIALS</h2>
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<p>Without any credential helpers defined, Git will try the following
strategies to ask the user for usernames and passwords:</p>
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<p>If the <code>GIT_ASKPASS</code> environment variable is set, the program