Git login-Configuring user and password with Git Bash

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I am using Git Bash on Windows 7. We are using GitHub as our repository origin.

Every time I push or pull I have to provide user and password credentials. I know that my SSH keys are set up correctly, otherwise, I would not be able to access the repository. (That is, once I enter my credentials the push/pull works correctly.)

I have entered

git config --global user.name myusername

git config --global user.email myemail

git config --global github.user myusername

git config --global github.token mytoken

But I am being asked for credentials each and every time I push/pull.

 
 

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Aug 4th, 2020 By: Tabres

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If you do not want to access GitHub repositories without giving your credentials, Git has a credentials system that can help you with this. The 'store' mode will access the credentials from a text file. Add your credentials to a text file and give it to the git command as follows.



$ git config --global credential.helper 'store --file ~/.credentials-file'

1 year ago - By pratheep
 

When an HTTPS URL is used for accessing the GitHub repository, it will ask for a username and password. It does not ask for the username and password for the SSH URL. You can check the config file of git using the below commands.



.git/config



git config -e



If it has an HTTPS URL, replace it with SSH.

1 year ago - By vivek reddy
 
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