Visual Studio 2017 - Git failed with a fatal error

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I am using Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017 Community Edition  CE   and I have signed into my Microsoft account and I am connected to VSTS  I can see all my projects and repositories  but when I attempt to pull fetch push any changes I get the following error   Error encountered while pushing to the remote repository  Git failed with a fatal error  PushCommand ExecutePushCommand   And accordingly for the fetch and pull commands too   I installed Git for Windows on the Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017 installer and not only is it failing to work with VSTS  I am unable to work with any of my GitHub repositories too  Has anyone else noticed this  It s happened on two of my machines so far   Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2015 Enterprise Edition  EE  and CE work completely fine for me   It seems that this issue has gotten far more recognition that I thought it would which leads me to believe that this is an issue with how Visual Studio is dealing with Git  I have also noticed that every time I update Visual Studio  this problem pops back up  and I have to go through the steps in some of the answers below to get Git working again  I m not sure why this is happening  and I also don t know if Microsoft are planning to resolving this issue

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I had a very similar problem and the instructions from a tech at Microsoft fixed it for me    Close all instances of Visual Studio  Open the Task Manager and check if any TFS Services are running  Select each of them and click on End Process Tree  Browse to the folder below and delete all the contents and folders in  LocalAppData  Microsoft Team Foundation version  Cache Go to Control Panel -  User Accounts -  Manage your Credential -  Windows Credential  select the VSTS URL to remove it Then go to  C  Users USER NAME AppData Local GitCredentialManager tenant cache  and delete it Also go to  C  Users USER NAME AppData Local IdentityService  and delete it

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I opened Credential Manager in Windows  not Visual Studio   selected  quot Windows Credentials quot   found my git https  stash    com Generic Credential  clicked the bubble arrow down to make visible the User name and Password fields with Edit button  Clicked Edit  and put in my correct password there  Then started work right after that  no need to close anything

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In my case  Windows had ran an update and was waiting to restart the PC  I hadn t seen any notifications but  well    turning it off and turning it on again fixed the problem   Try that first before monkeying with any of these Visual Studio directories and applications

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I got this error while trying clone a new repository  After trying several solutions following worked for me  From browser Go to dev azure com and go to your repo click on Clone and in the IDE select Visual Studio and click on Clone  It will open up visual studio and set the credentials  if it again asks for credentials click on Generate git credentials and use it  Works like a charm

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I m going to add a solution here that the previous answers have not already mentioned  but this is what fixed it for me    Navigate to C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community Common7 IDE CommonExtensions Microsoft TeamFoundation Team Explorer  and delete the Git folder  Make sure that there is no version of Git installed on your system  remove it by going to Control Panel   Program and Features  TortoiseGit does not need to be removed from my experience  just native git installations   Open up the Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017 installer and untick  Git For Windows  in installation options  Head over to the Git website and install the latest version of Git for Windows  Go back into the Visual Studio installer and tick  Git for Windows  again  It will not download a new version even though it may look like it is  After that is done  your Git should be fine with VSTS and TF Explorer

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I was able to fix the issue using this line in the command line without reinstalling anything   git config --global credential  myserver  authority NTLM  Simply replace  myserver  with the hostname of your server  without http or port number    After that  VS was able to connect correctly   Source  https   github com Microsoft Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows blob master Docs Faq md q-i-thought-microsoft-was-maintaining-this-why-does-the-gcm-not-work-as-expected-with-tfs

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After installing the last version of Git for Windows you must to open the configuration file to edit   git config --global --edit   Click Insert  remove all the settings  click Esc  type  wq and  Enter to save   Now you can clone the repository by Bash or IDE with a valid user

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If you are using a proxy  open a command prompt and try   git config --global http proxy  lt proxy address gt   lt port gt    More info at  https   github com desktop desktop issues 2789

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I had a different problem  My computer contained older OpenSSL DLL files in system32 and syswow64 so to fix my problem  I had to copy  libeay32 dll and ssleay32 dll from one folder to another folder within the Git folders of Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017   FROM  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 vs edition Common7 IDE CommonExtensions Microsoft TeamFoundation Team Explorer Git mingw32 bin   TO  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 vs edition Common7 IDE CommonExtensions Microsoft TeamFoundation Team Explorer Git mingw32 libexec git-core  Ref   Git - Can t clone remote repository

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I was getting similar issues  In Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017  with Rebase option I solved my issue    I am having only a master branch  I rebase from master to origin master  means to the same branch  and clicked Rebase  Before doing Rebase  the status was  I was committed my changes however not able to push sync as my local branch base and Git code base was not synchronised state

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I also had this issue after I got wget from the GNU tools  and copied it right into c  windows  The libeay dll and libssl dll files were also in the archive  When those were in c  windows  I had this issue  Removing them immediately fixed it  So  check if you have these  DLLs somewhere in your path  VS may be picking up some other software s version of these instead of using the ones it expects

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I once had such an error from Git while I was trying to synchronise a repository  I tried to send my commits while having pending changes from my coworker       Git failed with a fatal error    pull --verbose --progress --no-edit --no-stat --recurse-submodules no origin   It turned out that after pressing the Commit all button to create a local commit  Visual Studio had left one file uncommitted and this elaborated error message actually meant   Commit all your changes     That missing file was Entity Framework 6 model  and it is often shown as uncommitted file although you haven t changed a thing in it   You can do commit all or undo all changes that are not committed

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If it doesn t work from Team   Manage Connections   Local Git Repositories   Clone  one can try either one these two ways    Menu File   Start Page   Open   Go for Git   or   Menu File   Open   Open from source control

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I had this problem after changing the git access password    I had to reset the credentials through the PowerShell console   At the git repository folder level  the script was as follows   git config --system --unset credential helper  git config --system credential helper store  git fetch   You will be prompted for the user and then the password   The next command will no longer request authentication   git fetch

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Wow   There are so many solutions to this problem   Try this easy one   Change your password   Just the other day  I started getting this notice that my password would expire in 14 days   Now 2 days later  I am getting this error     I really didn t feel like hacking git or OpenSSL libraries  so I just changed the Windows password on my computer and it worked   Update  Then it started happening again   From Team Explorer go to Sync   Then do Actions   Open Command Prompt   In the command prompt type git push origin   That might work for you

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Understand Why are you getting this error   if you are able to delete your other branches but not another branch  then there is a case that you are not the owner of that branch  ie  the branch has been created by some one else and you are using it   Easy Solution   you can ask the owner of the branch to delete it    simple    Problem faced  Error encountered while deleting branch from the remote repository  PushCommand ExecutePushCommand

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I had the same issue  The following steps solved the problem for me    Backup and delete  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 14 0 2017 Professional Common7 IDE CommonExtensions Microsoft TeamFoundation Team Explorer Git  Install latest version of Git  https   git-scm com download win

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AngelBlueSky s answer worked partially for me  I had to execute these additional lines to clean the Git global configuration after step 4   git config --global credential helper wincred git config http sslcainfo  C  Program Files Git mingw64 ssl certs ca-bundle crt  git config --global --unset core askpass git config --global --unset mergetool vsdiffmerge keepbackup git config --global --unset mergetool vsdiffmerge trustexitcode git config --global --unset mergetool vsdiffmerge cmd git config --global --unset mergetool prompt git config --global --unset merge tool git config --global --unset difftool vsdiffmerge keepbackup git config --global --unset difftool vsdiffmerge cmd git config --global --unset difftool prompt git config --global --unset diff tool   Then git config -l  executed from any git repo  should return only this   core symlinks false core autocrlf false core fscache true color diff auto color status auto color branch auto color interactive true help format html diff astextplain textconv astextplain rebase autosquash true user name xxxxxxxxxxxx user email xxxxx xxxxxx xx credential helper wincred core bare false core filemode false core symlinks false core ignorecase true core logallrefupdates true core repositoryformatversion 0 remote origin url https   xxxxxx bitbucket org xxx xxx git remote origin fetch  refs heads   refs remotes origin   branch master remote origin branch master merge refs heads master branch identityserver remote origin branch identityserver merge refs heads identityserver http sslcainfo C  Program Files Git mingw64 ssl certs ca-bundle crt   Run the git status and git fetch commands to validate that it works from the command line   Then go to Visual Studio  where your repositories should be back  and all sync push pull should work without issues

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I ran into this issue as well  I had sync d my code earlier in the day so it made no sense that it suddenly gave this Git error  Restarting Visual Studio did not make any difference  After reviewing the above answers and not finding any clear solution  I decided to try syncing outside of Visual Studio using TortoiseGit which I already had installed  This worked  I was then able to sync within Visual Studio normally  If you don t already have TortoiseGit  you may download it  free  from tortoisegit org

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This problem allways occures to me - when i have to change my password  It feels like there is allways another problem with my old credentials dont get updated    Go to your Windows Credential Manager Remove all Tfs Credential Entries   Finished

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This appears to happen in VS 2017 when there is a pending commit that would conflict with the pull  If you go to a command terminal and do a  git pull origin   you will usually get the error that is the source of the confusion  To solve  check in all your changes in VS 2017 and then try the pull or sync again from VS 2017  Needless to say     this is not desired behavior in VS 2017

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Navigate to C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community Common7 IDE CommonExtensions Microsoft TeamFoundation Team Explorer     Delete the Git folder Visual Studio

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Many solutions here  for me here s what worked    I first changed the credentials from my Windows  In your Windows search  search  Credentials Manager   then go to  Windows Credentials   and updated  Edit option  my password to my new password   Control Panel   User Accounts   Credential Manager for Visual Studio Git  I restarted Visual Studio  and tried to push  but I still got the  Authentication failed error   I went to back to the Windows Credential manager in step 1 and deleted Remove option  the GIT account tied to my Visual Studio  I pushed again and it went through

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When i do pull fetch push i got the above error in my output window  i followed the below soloution   it resovled my issue   If you are using visual studio 2017 enterprise edition  replace the userId with your user id in the below command and execute this command in windows run window windows key   R       runas  netonly  user UserId  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Common7 IDE devenv exe      This will prompt for password  enter your password  A new visual studio instance will open and will start working properly

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I had the same error pop up in VS 2017 when trying to delete a remote branch  The issue was that the branch was not on the server  using TFS2018 with GIT   but somehow Visual Studio did have it show up in the  remote origin  section  This meant that I could not delete the remote branch  VS was giving out this error  while the server explorer didn t show up the branch at all    Here s how to fix it  tested in VS 2017     In Visual Studio  double click on your  rogue  remote branch   VS should have now created a local branch from it   Right click on the local branch  select  Unset remote branch    Right click on the local branch  select  Push branch    You should now have a true corresponding remote branch  Delete the remote branch  then the local branch    Hopefully it will help someone who ends up on this thread having the same issue as me

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I got it working by removing username  from http   username asdf xxx yy zzz git in the repository settings   Team Explorer   Settings   Repository Settings   Remotes   Edit

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The below fixes my problem    Navigate to C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community Common7 IDE CommonExtensions Microsoft TeamFoundation Team Explorer  and delete the Git folder   Make sure that there is no version of Git installed on your system  remove it by going to Control Panel   Program and Features  TortoiseGit does not need to be removed from my experience  just native Git installations   Open up the Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017 installer and untick  Git For Windows  in installation options  Head over to the Git website and install the latest version of Git for Windows  Go back into the Visual Studio installer and tick  Git for Windows  again  It     will not download a new version even though it may look like it is      After that is done  your Git installation should be fine with VSTS and TF     Explorer

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I had the same issue  Restarting Visual studio worked for me    You may try it before reinstalling stuff

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I got the following error messages using Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017 CE      Failed to push to the remote repository  See the Output window for more details    The output window showed the following      Error encountered while pushing to the remote repository  Git process failed unexpectedly    PushCommand ExecutePushCommand   I tried to push changes using GitHub Desktop  It shows the following error message      Cannot push these commits as they contain an email address marked as private on GitHub    That s It  Solution      open GitHub account    Settings    Emails    Uncheck  Keep my email address private    It s done  That was the problem in my case

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I get the following error message when trying to push with the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio  Error encountered while pushing branch to the remote repository  Git failed with a fatal error repository  https   github com my-repo  not found I know that the repository exists  I pulled from it  Unfortunately the error message in this situation does not indicate the root cause  I did not have write permissions for that repository

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Compounded the problem by deleting the local repo so I could clone a fresh copy  I was faced with new error   git cannot be found Git failed with a fatal error fatal  repository  xyz  not found    I tried everything suggestions i google about with no resolution   The following simple step worked for me and I am adding it to the growing list of possible resolutions    git config --get http proxy result is http   google com 80   this is not right so i got rid of it   git config --global --unset http proxy

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I fixed this problem by uninstalling the 64-bit version and installing a 32-bit version of Git

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I tried this  https   stackoverflow com a 43257818 1831734 But this not solved my problem  I did following  WINDOWS   Go to repository browser with CMD type  git push  Result          remote  Resolving deltas  100   11 11   completed with 10 local objects  remote  error  GH007  Your push would publish a private email address  remote  You can make your email public or disable this protection by visiting  remote  http   github com settings emails To https   github com userName repoName     remote rejected  main - gt  main  push declined due to email privacy restrictions  error  failed to push some refs to  https   github com userName repoName   I went to  http   github com settings emails and checked settings then changed my email in Visual Studio local computer Setting your email address for every repository on your computer  Open Git Bash   Set an email address in Git  You can use your GitHub-provided no-reply email address or any email address    git config --global user email  quot email example com quot   Confirm that you have set the email address correctly in Git  git config --global user email email example com Add the email address to your account on GitHub  so that your commits are attributed to you and appear in your contributions graph  For more information  see  quot Adding an email address to your GitHub account  quot   Reset the author information on your last commit  git commit --amend --reset-author

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This is the error I was getting   Git failed with a fatal error  pull --verbose --progress --no-edit --no-stat --recurse-submodules no origin   I tried all the previous methods  but they didn t work  Later I found out that there were some conflicts in the code  see the Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017 output window    I simply reverted the code and it worked

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After I changed the generic credentials from Control Panel   User Accounts   Credential Manager for Git  it worked for me

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I m using GitKraken and Visual Studio 2017   When GitKraken clones a repository  it leaves fetch address like  git github com user Repo git   instead of  https   github com user Repo git    To fix that  go to Team Explorer   Settings   Repository Settings   Remotes   Edit  and change  git   to  https     and     to

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In my case a failing Jest unit test preventing the push to the repo gives the same generic error of  Error encountered while pushing to the remote repository  Git failed with a fatal error

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In my case I didn t have to do anything so drastic as uninstalling Git as per some of the answers here  I just had to use the command line instead of Visual Studio  Open up cmd at your solution s root and enter  git pull  You will then be told exactly what the issue is  In my case it told me that I had uncommitted changes that would have been overwritten and that I needed to commit them before I could continue  Once I had done this the pull succeeded  and I could resolve the conflict in the merge tool  TLDR Use the command line instead of Visual Studio to get a more complete error message

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One tip for those new git users  U need to commit before revert to old code  I tried every solution under this question then I found this stupid stuff by myself

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I tried a lot and finally got it working with some modification from what I read in Git - Can t clone remote repository    Modify Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017 CE installation   remove Git for windows  installer   modify   single components   Delete everything from C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community Common7 IDE CommonExtensions Microsoft TeamFoundation Team Explorer Git  Modify Visual nbsp Studio nbsp 2017 CE installation   add Git for windows  installer   modify   single components  Install Git on windows  32 or 64 bit version   having Git in system path configured    Maybe point 2 and 3 are not needed  I didn t try   Now it works OK on my Gogs

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Try   Closing all instances of VS and then deleting the account for the TFS server in Control Panel -  User Accounts-  Credentail manager  Refer  https   developercommunity visualstudio com content problem 142173 after-changing-domain-password-couldnt-connect-to html

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In Control Panel All Control Panel Items Credential Manager     Windows Credentials Remove Git http             and Retry    Enjoy

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