Just ran into this Git behavior which looks like a bug with credential-store:
$ git pull
Username for 'https://github.com': ...
Password for 'https://...@github.com': ...
Already up-to-date.
$ git config credential.helper store
$ git pull
remote: Repository not found.
Then, go and edit .git/config to remove [credential] helper = store and git pull works again.
What could cause it?
How do I use credential helper without running into this error?
UPDATE Using git version 1.9.1 on Ubuntu 14.04
UPDATE Retested with git version 2.9.3, same result.
UPDATE I have several accounts on github in ~/.git-credentials. I ran git with GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 GIT_TRACE=1 and it looks like it picks the first github account in the order they're listed.
However .git/config in the repo I'm working in has the correct user.email, which does have a matching entry in ~/.git-credentials. It just doesn't use that entry.
What worked for me was in .git folder I opened the config file.
Now you need to insert:
[credential "https://github.com/yourProjectPath"]
username = yourGithubUsername
After this you can use:
git config credential.helper store
This will add this to the config file:
[credendial]
helper = store
Make sure the config file has this section at the end and does not have a duplicate of it before the "credential" section you added previously
Then run:
git pull
And fill in your password.
If you are on Linux, the first thing to do is to update Git to its latest version through git-core/+archive/ubuntu/ppa.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
Then check if the issue persists with git 2.9.3.
Arun Wilson mentions in the comments:
In my case, there were two entries in ~/.git-credentials against github.com and first one was wrong against from the repo folder that I pulled
https://username-2:********@github.com
https://username-1:********@github.com
https://username-1:*********@gitlab.com
https://username-1:*********@bitbucket.org
