Wednesday, January 20, 2016

How to clean up your git credintials on windows (i.e. Credential stored by wincred)



One problem that I noticed with wincert is that after I changed my password, it doesn't ask me for new password. It tries the old password and if it fails it returns. My expectation was that if the password fails, it prompts for a new password and replaces the old password after successful attempt.  However, it doesn't do this. You have to manually do the following

1- Go to Credential Manager Win key -> and search for it
2- Click on windows credentials
3- Remove the address that starts with git:http...

This should solve your problem. :)