# git-credential-cache—daemon(1) Manual Page

## NAME

git-credential-cache--daemon - Temporarily store user credentials in memory

## SYNOPSIS

    git credential-cache—daemon <socket>

## DESCRIPTION

Note | You probably don’t want to invoke this command yourself; it is started automatically when you use git-credential-cache(1).

This command listens on the Unix domain socket specified by `<socket>` for `git-credential-cache` clients. Clients may store and retrieve credentials. Each credential is held for a timeout specified by the client; once no credentials are held, the daemon exits.

## GIT

Part of the git(1) suite