Remove credentials from Git

windows git credentials
balexandre picture balexandre · Mar 13, 2013 · Viewed 923.4k times · Source

I'm working with several repositories, but lately I was just working in our internal one and all was great.

Today I had to commit and push code into other one, but I'm having some troubles.

$ git push appharbor master
error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://[email protected]/mitivo.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack
fatal: HTTP request failed

There is nothing I can do, that would bring the password entry again.

How can I reset the credentials on my system so Git will ask me for the password of that repository?

I have tried:

  • git config --global --unset core.askpass

in order to unset the password

  • git config credential.helper 'cache --timeout=1'

in order to avoid credentials cache...

Nothing seems to work; does anyone have a better idea?

Answer

Venkataramana Madugula picture Venkataramana Madugula · Sep 21, 2016

If this problem comes on a Windows machine, do the following.

  • Go to Credential Manager
    • in German, it is called: Anmeldeinformationsverwaltung
    • in French, it is called: Gestionnaire d'identification
  • Go to Windows Credentials
  • Delete the entries under Generic Credentials
  • Try connecting again. This time, it should prompt you for the correct username and password.

Go to Credential Manager

Go to Windows Credentials and Delete the entries under Generic Credentials

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