The instructions to add credentials to your .gitcookies file on windows is wrong and doesn't work in CMD or powershell.

What is listed is:

git config --global http.cookiefile "%USERPROFILE%\.gitcookies"
powershell -noprofile -nologo -command Write-Output "chromium.googlesource.com`tFALSE`t/`tTRUE`t2147483647`to`tgit-dougt.chromium.org=1/XXXXXXX
chromium-review.googlesource.com`tFALSE`t/`tTRUE`t2147483647`to`tgit-dougt.chromium.org=1/XXXXXXX" >>"%USERPROFILE%\.gitcookies"


This will fail because of the line break between the two entries (one for chromium* and the other for chromium-review).

My suggestion is to use TWO separate powershell commands which isn't much slower, it's much clearer what's happening, and will avoid the terminal confusing the line break.


git config --global http.cookiefile "%USERPROFILE%\.gitcookies"

powershell -noprofile -nologo -command Write-Output "chromium.googlesource.com`tFALSE`t/`tTRUE`t2147483647`to`tgit-dougt.chromium.org=1/XXXXXXX" >>"%USERPROFILE%\.gitcookies"

powershell -noprofile -nologo -command Write-Output 
chromium-review.googlesource.com`tFALSE`t/`tTRUE`t2147483647`to`tgit-dougt.chromium.org=1/XXXXXXX" >>"%USERPROFILE%\.gitcookies"

I hope this helps!