I'm using git on a new git linux computer. When I do git push, it me asks for user/password.
I've setup git properly, and in fact cloning the repo from github into a new folder works perfectly (using my public key, not the readonly copy). When I try to push from a previous clone I made to the same repo I get prompted for a user/pass.
Of course sshing into [email protected] works, and I made sure my public key is configured in github. Any ideas how to continue debugging?
this occurs because you did
git clone https://github.com/username/repo
instead of
git clone [email protected]:username/repo.git
Try the following:
git remote set-url origin [your git url, such as [email protected]:.../project.git]
What do you mean by previous repo? Check the url of the origin from the previous repo's .git/config file. If you had cloned using http, it will ask for user/pass.
if your repo Url is: https://github.com/abc/xyz.git
set url from command line as: git remote set-url origin [email protected]:abc/xyz.git
Replace https://github.com/ with [email protected]:
In my experience, there are three cases
1. git remote set-url github(remote repo name) https://github.com/id/a.git
it asks ID/Passwd
2. git remote set-url github https://[email protected]/id/a.git
it only asks Passwd
3. git remote set-url github git://github.com:id/a.git
if you don't have a permission, it complains. So I can't use this for public server of github
all the commands are written to ".git/config"
for mac If you have git 1.7.10+ it needs to use credential-osxkeychain for password caching. Here is a nice explanation:
May be this will help someone like me.
Please find Git official article for caching your password
Link: https://help.github.com/en/articles/caching-your-github-password-in-git
Commands:
Set Git to use the credential memory cache
> git config --global credential.helper cache
Change default cache timeout
> git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'
