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Today my brain was somehow fuked up so I upgraded git to version 2.29.1.windows.1. Now every time I try to 'git pull' or 'git clone' etc., it shows a popup window as below. I have two problems here.

First, even I input the correct username and password, it show "Logon failed, use ctrl+c to cancel basic credential prompt."

Second, no matter I set credential.helper to manager or store, it always pops up the window. However, the password was stored actually.(~/.git-credential if using store and in Credential Manager if using manager).

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Mas Zero
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    I'm also experiencing Git prompting me for credentials all the time. Didn't happen before today – citronas Oct 28 '20 at 09:23
  • Okay, seems to be related to GitHub Desktop which I used to store my credentials. GitHub Desktop isn't logged in to my GitHub account anymore and refuses to connect. When I use the same credentials on github.com, it work flawlessly. I'll try to update GitHub desktop and hope that the problem will resolve itself – citronas Oct 28 '20 at 09:30
  • @citronas I am just using bash command, not github desktop... And my credentials works on github.com too. Maybe they are using same backend to handle the logon action for github desktop and prompt. – Mas Zero Oct 28 '20 at 09:32
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    Okay, after upgrading my system seems to be even more broken. Maybe it's a GitHub related issue? – citronas Oct 28 '20 at 09:38

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GitHub deprecated basic authentication, see https://developer.github.com/changes/2020-02-14-deprecating-password-auth/

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TLDR; If you are still seeing this popup: GitHub Login requesting username and password, it is because your installed git version is too old!

For the slow-witted like myself, who didn't realize I had an older version of git installed (2.28.1 in my case), make sure that you update git to the latest version. As soon as I updated to 2.34.1 I was finally able to authenticate using a github token.

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