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Development Tools Introduction to Git GitHub and Other Remote Repositories Pushing Commits to GitHub

Posted by Daniel Prowse
Daniel Prowse
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GitHub credentials

When i run the command "git push" i do not get the output asking me for my username and password?

1 Answer

adrian miranda
adrian miranda
13,561 Points
adrian miranda
adrian miranda
13,561 Points

We would probably need more information to be able to help you. However there are a couple of reasons why you might not be asked for you password when you run git push.

Perhaps you don't have anything to push. (Actually, I think you will still be asked.)

You have saved your password locally. Look at git config --global credential.helper store

You are using ssh for git communication, and have configured ssh to allow access without requiring a password every single time. This is probably the best way.