At first, I thought there was an issue with my credential.helper. Then I tried to do a git pull and I got this nice error message: $ git pullįatal: Authentication failed for `repo url/`Īpparently, updating my domain credentials also broke my Git credentials.

I'm just back from a 2-week holiday and, as expected, my Windows credentials had expired so I changed them. And then you have to go googlebing for the solution. Yet, there are occasions when things within Git break.

Posted in Source Control, git, credentials Var creds = auth.How to update your Git credentials on Windows 06 August 2015 Var auth = new BasicAuthentication(secrets) Once you have those packages installed, this C# code snippet is all you need: var secrets = new SecretStore('git') I found 0.21.0.176 works with LinqPad and the latest 0.23.0 pre release works in Visual Studio. There seems to be an issue with the latest version of LibGit2Sharp (0.22.0 at time of writing) and LinqPad / Visual Studio. You'll also need LibGit2Sharp: PM> Install-Package Install-Package LibGit2Sharp -Pre You can grab it here: PM> Install-Package Microsoft recently published the Git Credential Manager client on NuGet. It turns out it's easy to do, but not very well documented. It's securely storing our Git credentials, but how do we access them from C# code? The solution We're using the latest version Git, so we already have Microsoft's Git Credential Manager for Windows installed. We soon hit a problem as our Git server requires authentication and obviously we didn’t want to hard code user credentials into a script. In order to do this we've written some LinqPad scripts using LibGit2Sharp. We needed a script to clone them all, switch to a branch, and produce a report of which services are used by other services. As such they have a lot of Git repositories. My current client is using a micro services architecture. Cloning a private Git repository with LibGit2Sharp and Git Credential Manager for Windows 30 September 2016 on git, git-tips 0 Comments

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