Rebar/Git Error and Solution

Just a quick one… for my benefit as well as perhaps yours.

I was trying to use rebar to pull in the dependencies on one of my Erlang projects but it kept failing with the following type of output;

fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address

I believe rebar doesn’t know how to ask for github credentials and I solved this by using the git credentials helper.

git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'

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