7th Sept. 2024

Remember Github login in CLI

I changed my laptop recently. I was unable access GitHub from command line after that.

I was getting this error.

remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021.
remote: Please see https://docs.github.com/get-started/getting-started-with-git/about-remote-repositories#cloning-with-https-urls for information on currently recommended modes of authentication.
fatal: Authentication failed

Fix

The fix is to install git-credential-manager. This is mentioned by Github but very poorly.

Once the manager is installed, git push works like ever before. We don't need to create new tokens after every few months.

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