Changing the git user inside Visual Studio Code

Question

The user for my git commits has changed  but I am not able to change that inside of Visual Studio Code   I changed the global settings in git  but when I want to push or sync via Visual Studio Code inside my new repos I get the error that the oldusername has not the permission to push into newrepository  At this point it is not the permission  The change of the username did not work for visual studio code  When I use the terminal I can push  It is also not a solution to allow the olduser to push to the newrepository    I am on Windows 10  So all other tools are working  but just at Visual Studio Code I was not able to change the user   Any recomondations are welcome

User · Answer

This could be because of the reason that the credentials are saved and you need to update those credentials and you can do that by following the below steps

control panel-> credential manager ->under generic credential you will be able to see the credentials related to git

Try to update them if that does not work delete them and add new ones

for other platforms or different versions of the operating system you need to find out where the credentails are saved related to git and update them.

User · Answer

Press Ctrl   Shift   G in Visual Studio Code and go to more and select Show git output  Click Terminal and type git remote -v and verify that the origin branch has latest username in it like   origin  git github com DroidPulkit Facebook-Chat-Bot git  fetch   origin  git github com DroidPulkit Facebook-Chat-Bot git  push   Here DroidPulkit is my username   If the username is not what you wanted it to be then change it with   git add remote origin git github com newUserName RepoName git

User · Answer

Generally VSCode uses the github credentials from system s credential manager  it doesn t store anywhere in the settings  As question says Changing the git user inside Visual Studio Code  is not inside rather outside   Search for or Go to credential manager  Windows control panel  -  Windows Credentials -  Update the GitHub password from the list

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From VSCode Commande Palette select        GitHub Pull Requests   Sign out of GitHub    Then Sign in with your new credential

User · Answer

from within the vscode terminal  git remote set-url origin https    lt your github username gt   lt your password gt  github com  lt your github username gt   lt your github repository name gt  git  for the quickest  but not so encouraged way

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There is a conflict between Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio Code for the git credentials  When i changed my credentials on VS 2015 VS Code let me push with the correct git ID

User · Answer

I resolved this issue by setting an email address in Git   git config --global user email  email example com

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You can view all of your settings and where they are coming from using   git config --list --show-origin   Delete the unwanted credentials from the directory and then VSCode ask you for the next time you perform git operation

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I had the same problem as Daniel  setting the commit address and unsetting the credentials helper also worked for me   git config --global user email   lt git-commit-address gt   git config --global --unset credential helper

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