Remove saved credentials from TortoiseGit

问题:

My credentials are saved in TortoiseGit (using Wincred) but my password changed.
The only way for me to pull from the repository now is to remove the Credential Helper.

How can I simply change the password?
Alternately, can I remove my credentials and save my new ones?

回答1:

Normally the invalid credentials should be purged automatically (after one unsuccessful authentication attempt).

Go to Control Panel\User Accounts and Family Safety\Credential Manager (another way to get there is to Start->Run rundll32.exe keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr), there all saved credentials should be listed (prefixed with git:).

For ways to also remove saved credentials on other OS, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/39944557/3906760.

回答2:

I changed my Windows password and now GIT would fail with authentication error, and even doing 2 pull in a row with "git pull -v" would not prompt for the new password.

It was really hard to find the Windows credential manager since not only do I have Windows 10, but also it's a French language version.

I finally found on this page I could access it by using:

rundll32.exe keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr

and I double-clicked on the git:http: line to enter the right password and I was then able to pull and push to the repository.

I hope this helps someone else.

I'd still like to understand why it's not asking me for the new password anymore - it used to ask for it the first 2 months after I got my Windows 10 PC (I change password every month)