Unable to execute git push from Package Manager Console with GitHub for Windows installed

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I've set up Visual Studio 2010 in order to use Git from the Package Manager Console, more precisely:

I've installed msysgit (adding Git executables under %PATH%);
I've installed Posh Git and I've enabled it using the instructions given in this SO answer.

I've also installed GitHub for Windows for easy access to repositories hosted on GitHub.

From the Package Manager Console I am able to do all the operation locally, but when I want to push to a GitHub repository the prompt seems "blocked", I cannot kill git using the Stop button and I'm forced to close Visual Studio and to push from the Git Shell provided with GitHub for Windows.

Using Process Explorer I can see that git spawn the GitHub for Windows program to do the authentication and from there it doesn't seem to advance.

edymtt · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-22 18:44:46Z

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I've resolved this issue by installing the Windows Credentials Store for Git (also suggested in the TFS blog), so that it handles the authentication instead of GitHub for Windows.

Now I can do git push from Package Manager Console -- the credentials store asks for credentials the first time and then pushes correctly to GitHub.

answered Mar 22, 2013 at 18:44

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komisacroS · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-27 13:45:58Z

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If your repository is hosted on Team Foundation Service (not on GitHub), then besides installing the Windows Credentials Store for Git (as answered by edymtt), you must enable basic authentication before you can use the command prompt to perform Git tasks. You can set this up from your User Profile in TFS. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd286572(v=vs.120).aspx

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Cătălin Rădoi · Accepted Answer · 2023-10-26 07:44:55Z

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Install git for Windows.

It includes the Git Credential Manager, it adds everything needed to PATHS and so on =)

https://git-scm.com/download/win

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