Visual Studio using wrong userid to push to github

[linuxgurugamer]

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I use Visual Studio to write C# code. For the past several months, the git integration has not been working correctly, when connecting to github, it uses the wrong userid; an old one I'm not using anymore.

The user which should be used is linuxgurugamer, instead, it's trying to use jbayer3000

Versions

Visual Studio 2022: 17.9.2
Git 4 Windows: 2.46.0.windows.1

The error I am getting is this:

Pushing master
ERROR: Permission to linuxgurugamer/ksp-advanced-flybywire.git denied to jbayer3000.
Error encountered while pushing to the remote repository: Git failed with a fatal error.
Git failed with a fatal error.
Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

Failed to push to the remote repository. See the Output window for more details.

However, doing a "git push" from either a cmd cli or the Developer Powershell terminal works

At a cmd cli and the Developer Powershell terminal, the git config shows the following:

>git config --global user.name
[email protected]

>git config --global user.email
[email protected]

>git config user.name
[email protected]

>git config user.email
[email protected]

Looking at the git config inside the Git->Settings, the user name and email for both the global settings and the Git Repository Settings->General are also correct.

As a workaround, I've installed the extensions: "Git Extensions", which also works, but I'd prefer to just use the embedded git integration in VS

I've also searched my envirnment variables, they also are correct

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[danialtavakoli]

Try clearing cached credentials in the Windows Credential Manager, removing any GitHub-related entries. Sign out of GitHub in Visual Studio and sign back in with the correct credentials. Ensure Visual Studio is using the correct Git installation and that no old remotes are configured. If you're using a Personal Access Token (PAT), make sure it's associated with the correct GitHub account. These steps should resolve the issue.

[danialtavakoli]

Also i found another solution for this which you can try it!
Start by configuring your username and email in your local Git settings to match those on GitHub. You can do this with the following commands:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

To update the author information on the most recent commit, you can run:

git commit --amend --author="New Author Name <[email protected]>"
git push --force

Alternatively, if you just need to update the username and email associated with the last commit, use:

git commit --amend -C HEAD --reset-author
git push --force

If you want to update all previous commits to reflect your new email or username (be cautious if working in a multi-user repository), you can use:

git filter-branch -f --env-filter "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME='New Name'; GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL='[email protected]'"

These steps will ensure that your commits are properly attributed to your GitHub account.

[linuxgurugamer]

Thanks, but it's not a problem with the author info being wrong in the commit, the problem is with authenticating with github.:q

[danialtavakoli]

Since clearing credentials and signing out didn't help, try uninstalling and reinstalling the Git Credential Manager by running git credential-manager uninstall followed by git credential-manager install. This should reset any cached credentials. After doing this, restart Visual Studio, re-enter your credentials, and try pushing again. This should resolve the authentication problem. I guess you did not install it again and re-enter your credentials maybe!

[linuxgurugamer]

I have the latest git4windows installed, the credential manager version is:
2.5.1+90d5f897f164a8fe07d2aa3bf7db439b0b4e03ea

git credential-manager uninstall returns an error:

C:\Windows\System32>git credential-manager uninstall
Required command was not provided.
Unrecognized command or argument 'uninstall'.

Description:

Usage:
  git-credential-manager [command] [options]

Options:
  --no-ui         Do not use graphical user interface prompts
  --version       Show version information
  -?, -h, --help  Show help and usage information

Commands:
  get          [Git] Return a stored credential
  store        [Git] Store a credential
  erase        [Git] Erase a stored credential
  configure    Configure Git Credential Manager as the Git credential helper
  unconfigure  Unconfigure Git Credential Manager as the Git credential helper
  diagnose     Run diagnostics and gather logs to diagnose problems with Git Credential Manager
  azure-repos  Commands for interacting with the Azure Repos host provider
  github       Commands for interacting with the GitHub host provider

[danialtavakoli]

It looks like the correct command to remove Git Credential Manager is git-credential-manager unconfigure instead of uninstall. Try running git-credential-manager unconfigure to unconfigure the credential manager, and then you can reconfigure it by running git-credential-manager configure. After doing this, restart Visual Studio, re-enter your credentials, and try pushing again. This should help resolve the authentication issue.

[little-chloe]

you can try this below command lines:
git credential-manager uninstall
git config --global user.name "your username"
git config --global user.email "your email"

[linuxgurugamer]

When I did that, VS wanted me to configure the username and email before committing changes. I put them back and got the same issue

[little-chloe]

I'm using VSCode, I did that today and it worked for me :')
try sign out your git account from VS, clear it's cache then sign in again
git credential-cache exit

[linuxgurugamer]

didn't work

[linuxgurugamer]

I've already done that, but it didn't work

Somehow, somewhere, VS is caching the wrong account name

[CPS7]

Here are some steps to address this issue.

1. Sign out of your current account (only if you want to switch the current account)
   
2. Change Git settings globally
   
   The commands are

git config --global user.email y*********@gmail.com
git config --global user.name Y*********

After completing the above steps, close and reopen Visual Studio Code. The next time you will execute your Git commands, you will be asked to login via browser, make sure you open that link in a browser where your desired GitHub account is logged in.

[linuxgurugamer]

This is NOT Visual Studio Code, it is Visual Studio 2022

In other words, I'm using Visual Studio 2022,not VS Code. Your instructions above are for VS Code

[ayim]

Hello from VS team, would you mind filing a bug via "Report a Problem"?

CC: @houghj16

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[linuxgurugamer]

Strangely, I just got ALL of the posts to this thread just now. I don't know why github didn't send me all the messages, I'll be reviewing them and seeing if they help. If not, I'll file a bug as requested in the next-to-last post