dsh-wsl-cred

Pulling or pushing over HTTPS from WSL can quietly break the moment the credential.helper chain points at a Linux-side store instead of the Windows Git Credential Manager. The fix is usually a one-line config change, but manually walking the helper chain and tweaking environment variables is exactly where tokens and passwords tend to leak into the terminal, a chat log, or an LLM prompt.

cred_hint handles the diagnostic half of that problem. It inspects the git credential.helper setting in your current WSL session, checks whether the chain is wired toward WinGCM (or gh auth on the Windows side), and then walks you through the concrete next steps in plain text. Crucially, it never echoes a token, password, or any secret back into the output—only the configuration guidance you need to act on.

If you live in a WSL terminal, talk to GitHub or other HTTPS remotes daily, and want to keep credential management on the Windows side without risking a secret in an AI-assisted troubleshooting session, this is the lightweight, low-risk piece of dsh-wsl-kit to reach for first.