When public key authentication isn't an option, you may find yourself typing
your password over and over when pushing to and pulling from a remote git
repository. This can get tedious. You can get around it by configuring git
to cache your credentials. Add the following lines to the .git/config file
of the particular project.
[credential]
helper = cache --timeout=300
This will tell git to cache your credentials for 5 minutes. Use a much larger number of seconds (e.g. 604800) to cache for longer.
Alternatively, you can execute the command from the command line like so:
$ git config credential.helper 'cache --timeout=300'