git-credential-manager.exe
Summary
Git Credential Manager - securely stores and retrieves Git credentials from OS credential stores.
git-credential-manager.exe is the 565th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 8,781 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Users\... and it is most often launched by sh.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Users\...98.5%
- C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin1.16%
- C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\libexec\git-core0.34%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- af4ed5e9ca82bf11e9ee6062b254878d82012c29e696d8c7e663107f916fa14998.28%
- a5449bbd6814dea0014cd70e05e881ee54eb44e37d1df9112eedd1cc308cd04a0.75%
- 0e6eda4badab79b535b302f2fcf274efb8f36253b087c5aa7b4156b4d3d964230.41%
- 53fbdb8b4f7f2b47728c929d2e580bcf9dc5b3643c35804ea709538e7cdbd4190.3%
- 491d2e91df07f1c63a59b7cc344e5b0c534f3af60e3a620e3497e1abc19f71b10.22%
- 61883413175a079c11dc0317518a998ac76cc493bf1a1a9b2666f95d3a1e4a2c0.05%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- sh.exe100%
Top Children
- git.exe92.82%
- conhost.exe5.13%
- brave.exe0.51%
- chrome.exe0.51%
- WpcTok.exe0.51%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.