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Add configurable Git credential helper settings

Ticket: #32

Summary

  • Adds a GitCredentialHelperMode model (macgit/Models/GitCredentialHelperMode.swift) with three modes: commitPlusAccountsOnly, helper(String), and preserveExisting, plus a resolve(configuredValues:) helper that maps existing credential.helper config values to a mode.
  • Persists credential.helper values in GlobalGitSettings (macgit/Models/GlobalGitSettings.swift) and reads them from global Git config via a new globalConfigValues lookup in GitStatusService+GlobalSettings.swift.
  • Adds updateGlobalCredentialHelper, invoked from updateGlobalGitSettings(_:credentialHelperMode:), which unsets existing credential.helper entries and rewrites them as an empty entry plus an optional named helper, then re-reads config to confirm the saved state matches the selected mode.
  • Adds availableCredentialHelpers(), which parses git help -a output for credential-* commands, excludes store and names containing --, and sorts osxkeychain first.
  • Adds GitCredentialInjection.configuredGitHelpers(), which sets GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 and returns no cleanup; GitStatusService+Remote.swift now falls back to this instead of nil when no resolved credential is present.
  • Adds a settings UI section (macgit/Views/Common/GitCredentialHelperSettingsSection.swift) and wires it into GitSettingsView and GitSettingsViewModel.

Tests

  • Modifies GitCredentialInjectorTests, GitGlobalSettingsServiceTests, and GitProviderCredentialResolverTests.
  • Adds GitRemoteCredentialPolicyTests.

Notes / uncertainty

  • The review patch was truncated after GitStatusService+RemoteCredential.swift; changes to that file, GitStatusService+Submodule.swift, the new view, and most test bodies were not shown, so their behavior is not verified here.
  • GitSettingsViewModel and GitSettingsView show 76/4 and 22/3 changed lines respectively; the diff for both was not included in the visible patch.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added Git credential-helper settings with available helper choices, connected-account support, and an option to preserve existing helper configurations.
    • Settings display helper availability and warn when configured credentials use unencrypted storage.
    • Added confirmation before replacing multiple configured helpers; saved credentials are not deleted.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fetch, pull, push, and submodule operations now fall back to configured Git helpers when matching connected-account credentials are unavailable, without prompting in Terminal.

Introduce a credential helper mode with UI for selecting or preserving helpers, and fall back to configured Git helpers when no provider credentials resolve.
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  • macgit/Models/GitCredentialHelperMode.swift
  • macgit/Services/GitCredentialInjector.swift
  • macgit/Services/GitStatusService+GlobalSettings.swift
  • macgit/ViewModels/GitSettingsViewModel.swift
  • macgitTests/GitCredentialInjectorTests.swift
  • macgitTests/GitGlobalSettingsServiceTests.swift
  • macgitTests/GitProviderCredentialResolverTests.swift
  • macgitTests/GitRemoteCredentialPolicyTests.swift
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  • macgitTests/GitProviderCredentialResolverTests.swift
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  • macgitTests/GitRemoteCredentialPolicyTests.swift
  • macgit/Services/GitCredentialInjector.swift
  • macgit/Services/GitStatusService+GlobalSettings.swift

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Walkthrough

The change adds Git credential-helper modes to global settings and controls to select or preserve helpers. Remote and submodule credential operations use configured Git helpers when no matching account credential is available.

Changes

Git credential helper settings

Layer / File(s) Summary
Global helper configuration
macgit/Models/GitCredentialHelperMode.swift, macgit/Models/GlobalGitSettings.swift, macgit/Services/GitStatusService+GlobalSettings.swift, macgitTests/GitGlobalSettingsServiceTests.swift
Global settings load configured helper values. GitStatusService discovers available helpers, updates configuration by mode, and verifies the selected mode. Tests cover helper resolution, discovery, replacement, rollback, and preservation.
Credential injection fallback
macgit/Services/GitCredentialInjector.swift, macgit/Services/GitStatusService+Remote.swift, macgit/Services/GitStatusService+RemoteCredential.swift, macgit/Services/GitStatusService+Submodule.swift, macgitTests/GitCredentialInjectorTests.swift, macgitTests/GitProviderCredentialResolverTests.swift, macgitTests/GitRemoteCredentialPolicyTests.swift
Credential injection uses configured Git helpers when no resolver or matching credential is available. The fallback disables terminal prompts. Tests check fallback environments and matching-account injection.
Helper selection and save flow
macgit/ViewModels/GitSettingsViewModel.swift, macgit/Views/Common/GitCredentialHelperSettingsSection.swift, macgit/Views/Common/GitSettingsView.swift
The settings view model tracks helper mode, availability, and insecure-store status. The settings view presents helper choices and asks for confirmation before replacing multiple configured helpers.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitSettingsView
  participant GitSettingsViewModel
  participant GitStatusService
  participant Git
  GitSettingsView->>GitSettingsViewModel: Save selected credential-helper mode
  GitSettingsViewModel->>GitStatusService: Update global settings with helper mode
  GitStatusService->>Git: Update credential.helper values
  Git-->>GitStatusService: Return configuration values
  GitStatusService-->>GitSettingsViewModel: Return update result
  GitSettingsViewModel-->>GitSettingsView: Reload settings and helper state
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8d972

The credential-helper changes have no established merge-blocking defect. Helper reset values remain intact, and the new files satisfy the license requirements. Merge after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8d972

Credential-helper choices affect shared Git configuration. The accounts-only choice does not enforce that restriction for every repository, and a failed save can leave credential settings changed. Matching connected-account credentials remain isolated from helper fallback.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The new connected-accounts-only selection changes global credential.helper values, but unmatched operations do not disable helpers at execution time. Repository-local helper values can therefore remain effective despite the selected mode. This is a gap in the newly presented restriction, not proof that repository helper execution itself is newly introduced.
  • Medium · reliability · observed: Credential-helper changes are committed before the remaining global settings writes. A later write or reload failure leaves the changed helper policy active while the view model retains its previous saved snapshot. Helper-specific restoration does not cover this terminal state, allowing shared credential policy and displayed save state to diverge.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The mutation scope is the current operating-system user's global Git configuration, potentially affecting other repositories and Git clients using that configuration. Helper fallback inherits the process environment; no new elevated operating-system privilege is evidenced by this path.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A repository with local helper configuration can still obtain credentials through that helper after the global accounts-only choice is saved. This requires relevant configuration to exist or be writable; a remote URL alone is not evidence of helper-command injection. The unresolved issue is the scope of the new restriction, not verified newly enabled arbitrary execution.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Account-specific injection disables configured helpers before exposing temporary account credentials, providing counterevidence against direct disclosure of those credentials through helper fallback. Helper discovery validates availability, not the security policy of every installed or preserved helper.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — A failed complete save can leave the active credential policy different from the saved view-model snapshot. Repetition or reverting the selection can then use stale equality checks when deciding whether to send a helper update, so recovery should reconcile authoritative configuration rather than assume failure preserved it.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — If accounts-only is intended as an execution restriction, enforce it with an operation-level helper reset for unmatched operations. Otherwise describe the choice explicitly as a global preference that repository configuration can override.
  • proposed — Define explicit partial-save recovery: reread effective state after failure, serialize application-owned helper transitions, and make restoration sensitive to concurrent configuration changes and cancellation rather than unconditionally trusting the initial snapshot.
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Review comments at @macgit/Models/GitCredentialHelperMode.swift:
- Line 1: Replace the SPDX-only line with the full AGPL v3 license header,
including the required license and email markers, in
macgit/Models/GitCredentialHelperMode.swift (line 1),
macgitTests/GitRemoteCredentialPolicyTests.swift (line 1), and
macgit/Views/Common/GitCredentialHelperSettingsSection.swift (line 1).

Review comments at @macgit/Services/GitCredentialInjector.swift:
- Around line 35-41: Update configuredGitHelpers to set GIT_ASKPASS to an empty
string and remove inherited SSH_ASKPASS while preserving configured credential
helpers. Update tests that expect GIT_ASKPASS to be nil to expect an empty
string.

Review comments at @macgit/Services/GitStatusService+GlobalSettings.swift:
- Around line 163-170: Update updateGlobalCredentialHelper to capture the
existing credential.helper values before unsetting them, then restore those
values if either replacement add fails before rethrowing the error. Preserve the
expected missing-key behavior while allowing other unset failures to surface;
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  • macgit/Models/GitCredentialHelperMode.swift
  • macgit/Models/GlobalGitSettings.swift
  • macgit/Services/GitCredentialInjector.swift
  • macgit/Services/GitStatusService+GlobalSettings.swift
  • macgit/Services/GitStatusService+Remote.swift
  • macgit/Services/GitStatusService+RemoteCredential.swift
  • macgit/Services/GitStatusService+Submodule.swift
  • macgit/ViewModels/GitSettingsViewModel.swift
  • macgit/Views/Common/GitCredentialHelperSettingsSection.swift
  • macgit/Views/Common/GitSettingsView.swift
  • macgitTests/GitCredentialInjectorTests.swift
  • macgitTests/GitGlobalSettingsServiceTests.swift
  • macgitTests/GitProviderCredentialResolverTests.swift
  • macgitTests/GitRemoteCredentialPolicyTests.swift

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