Issue while pushing new code in Github

Question

I am trying to push code into Github using command,

git push -u origin master

But it is asking for username and password and when I enter username and password it is giving error as "remote: Invalid username or password."

My username is "saekhan". I tried this with saekhan, "saekhan", @saekhan and "@saekhan". Please tell me where am I doing wrong?

When you're in your Git directory, what is the output of `git remote get-url origin`? — Garrett Hyde, Oct 17 '17 at 03:30
My output is "https://github.com/saekhan/node-course-2-web-server.git" — S.R.KHAN, Oct 17 '17 at 20:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 17 '17 at 04:34

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One possibility is that your password includes a special character.
Then you should need to percent encode it (see "Percent-encoding reserved characters")

Check also your git config credential.helper: with a recent Git, it should ask your credentials through a popup window to cache them in the Windows Credential Manager

git config credential.helper

Make sure you are using the latest Git for Windows.

I see a https://github.com/saekhan/node-course-2-web-server, so make sure your remote url is set to that repo:

git remote add origin https://github.com/saekhan/node-course-2-web-server
# or
git remote set-url https://github.com/saekhan/node-course-2-web-server

answered Oct 17 '17 at 04:34

VonC

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Yes, first I run git remote add command then I am trying to run 'git push -u origin master' – S.R.KHAN Oct 17 '17 at 20:52
@S.R.KHAN Does it ask you for your credentials? – VonC Oct 17 '17 at 21:02
Sometimes and sometimes it gives error directly without asking password. – S.R.KHAN Oct 17 '17 at 21:07
@S.R.KHAN you need to enter your GitHub account and password – VonC Oct 17 '17 at 21:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 17 '17 at 04:43

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To be sure, you have read/write permissions to repository.

Check remote server:

git remote -v

At Git source code folder (at same level at where you seen hidden folder named .git)

git config user.name "YourFullName"
git config user.email "your_email_address@example.com"

then retry.

answered Oct 17 '17 at 04:43

Vy Do

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user.name user.email have nothing to do with GitHub authentication. – VonC Oct 17 '17 at 05:00
I tried but still got the same result. – S.R.KHAN Oct 17 '17 at 20:49
@S.R.KHAN yes, because they have nothing to do with your issue. – VonC Oct 17 '17 at 20:52

Issue while pushing new code in Github

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