How do I update the password for Git

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I m using BitBucket with Xcode and Git for version control  and recently I changed all of my passwords  thanks Adobe     Unsurprisingly  I m no longer able to push my local commits to my repository on BitBucket  Authentication failed for  https          git    but I m forgetting how to update the cached password on my iMac  Somehow I ve been unable to find it on Google or Stack nbsp Overflow  though it seems to me it should be rather straightforward

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I was able to change my git password by going to Credential Manager in Windows and deleting all the git entries under Windows Credentials Generic Credentials.

When doing a git pull or git push, windows will ask for the new user/password itself.

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In my Windows machine  I tried the solution of  nzrytmn i e    Control Panel Search Credentials Select  ManageCredentials  modified new credentials under git option category corresponding to my username  And then   Deleted current password   git config --global --unset user password   Added new password   git config --global --add user password  new password    And It worked for me

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For those who are looking for how to reset access to the repository  By the example of GitHub  You can change your GitHub profile password and revoke all  Personal access tokens  in  Settings -  Developer settings  of your profile  Also you can optionally wipe all your SSH PGP keys and OAuth GitHub apps to be sure that access to the repository is completely blocked  Thus  all the credential managers  on any system will fail at authorisation and prompt you to enter the new credentials

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In Windows 10 with Git   Remove update related Credentials stored in Windows Credentials in   Control Panel All Control Panel Items Credential Manager

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Following steps can resolve the issue         Go to the folder   Library Application Support SourceTree Delete the file  Username  STAuth-bitbucket org Restart Sourcetree Try to fetch  password filed appear  give your new password  Also can run  git fetch  command in terminal and need to type password  Done

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If you are using github and have enabled 2 factor authentication  you need to enter a Personal access token instead of your password  First reset your password   git config --global --unset user password  Then  log to your github account  on the right hand corner  click on Settings  then Developer Settings  Generate a Personal access token  Copy it   git push  The terminal will prompt you for your username  enter your email address   At the password prompt  enter the personal access token instead

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The only way I could modify my git password was to go to Credential Manager in Windows  Windows Key   type  credential   and edit the git entry under Windows Credentials  Generic Credentials   Note  Not listed alphabetically

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There is such a confusion on this question  as there is way too much complexity in this question  First MacOS vs  Win10  Then the different auth mechanisms  I will start a consolidated answer here and probably need some help  if I do not get help  I will keep working on the answer until it is complete  but that will take time  Windows 10     -- Run this command  You will be prompted on next push pull to enter username and password         git config --global credential helper wincred  Thanks to  Andrew Pye     MacOS     -- Using git config to store username and password     git config --global --add user password    ---- first time entry    git config --global --add user password  lt new pass gt     ---- password update    git config --global --unset user password    git config --global --add user password  lt new pass gt     -- Using keychain     git config --global credential helper osxkeychain    ---- first time entry    Terminal will ask you for the username and password  Just enter it  it will be     stored in keychain from then on     ---- password update    Open keychain  delete the entry for the repository you are trying to use       git remote -v will show you     On next use of git push or something that needs permissions  git will ask for     the credentials  as it can not find them in the keychain anymore

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do these steps in Terminal    Delete current password saved in your Mac  git config --global --unset user password  Add your new password by using this command  replace  with your new password   git config --global --add user password  lt new pass gt

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my password was good in github desktop preferences but wrong in the  git config file  for me the only working solution was to manually edit the file   git config  that contains this line  url   https   user password github com user repo git  change password to the GOOD password because it was an older one for me

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Just clone one of your existing repos  this will prompt you for new credentials  e g    git clone https   myuser bitbucket org mypath myrepo git      https   myuser bitbucket org mypath myrepo git is an address of one of your existing repos

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I had the same problem  and the accepted answer didn t help me because the password wasn t stored in the keychain  I typed   git pull https   myuser bitbucket org mypath myrepo git   Then console asked me for my new password

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To fix this on macOS  you can use   git config --global credential helper osxkeychain   A username and password prompt will appear with your next Git action  pull  clone  push  etc     For Windows  it s the same command with a different argument   git config --global credential helper wincred

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If you are MAC user then you can open KeyChain Access Application from finder and then look for your account listed there  Just click on it and update your password   Now give a try and things will fall in place   link for reference  Updating your credentials via Keychain Access  Worked for me

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I would try to delete my account in Keychain Access and then run git clone again  Git will ask me for a new password

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If your credentials are stored in the credential helper  the portable way to remove a password persisted for a specific host is to call git credential reject     git credential reject protocol https host bitbucket org     or    git credential reject url https   bitbucket org     After that  to enter your new password  type git fetch

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None of the other answers worked for me on MacOS Sierra 10 12 4  Here is what I had to do   git config --global --unset user password   Then run your git command  ex  git push  and reenter your username and password

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In windows 10 at mentioned above by   Imran Javed you can find Generic Credentials at    Control Panel All Control Panel Items Credential Manager  --  Windows Credentials   for your git server  and then you can update password by clicking edit button

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For Mac  If you have multiple remote repositories  Github  Bitbucket  Job  etc    1  run in the project directory  git config --unset user password   2  run remote git command  ie  git push or git pull   Git will prompt you to reenter your user name and user password for this repository  Or you can do it globally if you have only one remote repository  git config --global --unset user password

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Tried everything but nothing worked  Then the following did work    Before any of the above steps  lock and unlock the keychain again coz sometimes it sorta gets stuck  Install the GitHub Desktop     it helps

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If above solutions are not working  try to change your remove git url   git remote -v  git remote set-url origin

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you can change password through command line in 2 places  following would edit credentials to connect the repo   git config --edit    The credentials also can be changed at global using global parameter like below   git config --global --add user password  XXXX    or set the credentials helper with   git config --global credential helper wincred   but if you have repo level credentials set the use the first command  git config --edit

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I was pushing into the repository for the first time  So there was no HEAD defined    The easiest way would be to   git push -u origin master   It will then prompt for the password  and once you enter that it will be saved automatically  and you will be able to push

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In this article  they explain it in a very easy way but basically  we just need to execute a git remote set-url origin  https    lt yourUserName gt  bitbucket org  lt yourRepo gt   and next time you do a git pull or a git push you will have to put your password

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running git config --global --unset user password followed by any git command would prompt you to enter username and password   git config --global --unset user password git push  will prompt you for the password  git status  will not prompt for password again

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For MAC users  using git GUI  Works for Sourcetree  may work for others as well   Would like to add a small remark to Derek s answer  https   stackoverflow com a 45703718 7138492   The original suggestion     git config --global --unset user password   should be followed by a push pull fetch BUT it might not work when done from the GUI  The  100 working case would be to do the very first consecutive prompt-triggering git command from console  Here is an example     Locate to your git repository root directory Type in   git config --unset user password Proceed with a git commend of your choice in terminal e g     git push   Then it will ask you to provide the new passoword

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