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Saturday, October 27, 2018

How to update git credentials after changing GitHub.com password?

Once you have changed your password in GitHub.com do the following in the git command line

You would notice that existing git pushing don't work and you would get a fatal error.
The command to execute is
 git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain 

The flow would be as follows, once you get the error issue this command and then try pushing to GitHub.com, it would now prompt the credentials again to be updated.

$ git push origin master remote: 
Invalid username or password. fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/[yourhandle]/[yourrepository].git/' 

$ git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain 
$ git push origin master 
Username for 'https://github.com': [yourhandle] 
Password for 'https://[yourhandle]@github.com':

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