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Authenticating to your Git repo

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Authenticating to your Git repo

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- [Instructor] Authenticate to Git Repos. So what is the Git Credential Manager? Well, the Git Credential Manager is a secure Git credential storage system for Windows that supports Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Bitbucket multi-factor authentication. So how does it work? You simplify authentication with Azure DevOps Services or your Git repos using this identification manager, or credential manager, in order for you to be able to access easier. You use the same credentials that you use for Azure DevOps Services or getting into Azure DevOps Services or the web portal on TFS, if you're still using TFS. So those same credentials would be used for accessing your Azure DevOps Services Git repositories. And it supports multi-factor authentication through an MSA account, so basically, you would store your MSA, which is your Microsoft account, so if you have a Microsoft, what they call a Live account, or used to call Live, it's…

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