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**Important note**
**Important**

*GitLink* was formerly named *GitHubLink*. By adding support to more Git hosting services the name seemed not covering the whole package. The old GitHubLink packages on NuGet and Chocolatey will no longer be updated or maintained.

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*Private git repositories* might be problematic. [More info](#source-stepping-returns-html).

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GitLink makes symbol servers obsolete which saves you both time with uploading source files with symbols and the user no longer has to specify custom symbol servers (such as symbolsource.org).

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If your repository is private, you are likely seeing the logon HTML from your git host.

* Log onto your git host in Internet Explorer
* Purge your local symbol cache
* Purge your local symbol cache

Note that this approach is not guaranteed to work. Visual Studio needs to authenticate to retrieve the source files
but does not ask the user for credentials to do so. There are ways to work around this, but no mechanism is currently
provided out-of-the-box in *GitLink*.

Possible workarounds
* Include a mechanism in the pdb to retrieve credentials (using PowerShell and Windows credentials store) (see [#37](https://github.com/GitTools/GitLink/issues/37))
* Use a proxy service that does not require authentication (see [#66](https://github.com/GitTools/GitLink/issues/66) and [Source server with Git repository](https://shonnlyga.wordpress.com/2016/05/28/source-server-with-git-repository))


# Supported git providers

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