Git credential helper - update password

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I m currently using GitHub over HTTPS and have the latest version of Git installed  1 9 0  along with the Git credential helper on Windows 7   On setting up my environment  I told git-credentials to permanently remember my username and password   I ve recently updated my GitHub password via the website and I m now no longer able to push pull fetch  etc    How I would go about updating my password on git-credentials helper on Windows 7

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If you are a Windows user  you may either remove or update your credentials in Credential Manager   In Windows 10  go to the below path   Control Panel  rarr  All Control Panel Items  rarr  Credential Manager  Or search for  credential manager  in your  Search Windows  section in the Start menu   Then from the Credential Manager  select  Windows Credentials    Credential Manager will show many items including your outlook and GitHub repository under  Generic credentials   You click on the drop down arrow on the right side of your Git  and it will show options to edit and remove  If you remove  the credential popup will come next time when you fetch or pull  Or you can directly edit the credentials there

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First find the version you are using with the Git command git --version  If you have a newer version than 1 7 10  then simply use this command   git config --global credential helper wincred   Then do the git fetch   then it prompts for the password update   Now  it won t prompt for the password for multiple times in Git

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None of the current solutions worked for me with git bash 2 26 2  This should work in any case if you are using the windows credential manager   One issue is the windows credential manager runs for the logged user  In my case for example  I run git bash with right click  run as admin  Therefore  my stored credentials are in a credentials manager which I can t access with the windows GUI if I don t login to windows as admin   To fix this    Open a cmd as admin  or whatever user you run with bash with  Go to windows system32 Type cmdkey  list  Your old credentials should appear here  with a part that reads    target xxx    Type cmdkey  delete xxx  where xxx is the target from the previous line   It should confirm you that your credentials have been removed  Next time you do any operation in git bash that requires authentication  a popup will ask for your credentials

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For Windows 10 it is  Control Panel  gt  User Accounts  gt  Manage your Credentials  gt  Windows Credentials  search for the git credentials and edit

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None of these answers ended up working for my Git credential issue  Here is what did work if anyone needs it  I m using Git 1 9 on Windows 8 1    To update your credentials  go to Control Panel  rarr  Credential Manager  rarr  Generic Credentials  Find the credentials related to your Git account and edit them to use the updated password   Reference  How to update your Git credentials on Windows  Note that to use the Windows Credential Manager for Git you need to configure the credential helper like so   git config --global credential helper wincred   If you have multiple GitHub accounts that you use for different repositories  then you should configure credentials to use the full repository path  rather than just the domain  which is the default    git config --global credential useHttpPath true

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On my first attempt to Git fetch after my password change  I was told that my username password combination was invalid  This was correct as git-credential helper had cached my old values   However  I attempted another git fetch after restarting my terminal command-prompt and this time the credential helper prompted me to enter in my GitHub username and password   I suspect the initial failed Git fetch request in combination with restarting my terminal command-prompt resolved this for me   I hope this answer helps anybody else in a similar position in the future

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FWIW  I stumbled over this very same problem  and my boss too  so it got more intense   The instant solution is to delete or fix your Git entries in the Windows Credential Manager  You may have a hard time finding it in your localized Windows version  but luckily you can start it from the good old Windows   R run dialog with control keymgr dll or control  name Microsoft CredentialManager  or rundll32 exe keymgr dll  KRShowKeyMgr if you prefer the classic look   Or put this in a batch file for your colleagues  cmdkey  delete git http   your git server company com  In Microsoft s Git Credential Manager this is a known issue that may be fixed as soon as early 2019  so don t hold your breath   Update  2020-09-30   GCM4W seems to be more or less abandoned  last release more than a year ago  only one commit to master since then named  I kid you not   quot Recreate the scalable version of the GCM Logo quot    But don t despair  with Microsoft now going Core  there is a shiny new project called GCM Core  which seems to handle password changes correctly  It can be installed standalone  should be activated automatically  otherwise activate e g  with git config --system credential helper manager-core  but is also included in the current Git for Windows 2 28 0  For more information about it  see this blog post

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Working solution for Windows  Control Panel  gt  User Accounts  gt  Credential Manager  gt  Generic Credentials

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It seems to me that the answers here are outdated  For me under Windows nbsp 10 and Git 2 15 0 this did the job   git credential reject protocol https host github com  lt Empty line here gt    And then to set the new username  amp  password   git credential fill protocol https host github com  lt empty line here gt    After this  if the credentials now work on the desired target host  we should use git credential approve -as mentioned in typical use of Git credentials  step 4 - to tell the credential helpers to mark the credentials as approved and reuse them in future connections

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Just cd in the directory where you have installed git-credential-winstore  If you don t know where  just run this in Git Bash   cat    gitconfig   It should print something looking like    credential      helper     C   ProgramFile  GitCredStore  git-credential-winstore exe    In this case  you repository is C  ProgramFile GitCredStore  Once you are inside this folder using Git Bash or the Windows command  just type   git-credential-winstore exe erase host github com protocol https   Don t forget to press Enter twice after protocol https

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Solution using command line for Windows  Linux  and MacOS  If you have updated your GitHub password on the GitHub server  in the first attempt of the git fetch pull push command it generates the authentication failed message   Execute the same git fetch pull push command a second time and it prompts for credentials  username and password   Enter the username and the new updated password of the GitHub server and login will be successful   Even I had this problem  and I performed the above steps and done

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