VS Code git pull only works when Visual Studio (2017) is running

Asked Aug 06 '19 at 17:20

Active Aug 06 '19 at 17:26

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Bizarre issue: Visual Studio Code and SourceTree are unable to push/pull/whatever unless Visual Studio (2017 in this case) is open and at least one Git operation has been performed. The error is fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://central.com/repository.git/. I guess it somehow inspires the others to work?

How does Visual Studio 2017 handle Git operations such that it makes Git operations for other programs work too?

I don't restart VS Code or SourceTree. Shortly after opening VS, Git works; shortly after closing it, Git doesn't work.

Listing the versions since the software is old and updating it is a struggle:

Git - 2.12.2.windows.1
Visual Studio Code - 1.19.1
SourceTree - 1.10.23.1
Visual Studio 2017 - 15.0.0+26228.13

Any advice or help on how to further debug this would also be greatly appreciated. The end goal of course is to have all programs be able to perform Git operations independently.

edited Aug 06 '19 at 17:26

asked Aug 06 '19 at 17:20

ricksmt

Please clone it using ssh. See this answer, https://stackoverflow.com/a/6565661/414785. – Yamato Aug 06 '19 at 17:44
@Yamato So switch protocols and abandon HTTPS? – ricksmt Aug 06 '19 at 17:45
Yes, based on reading about git, ssh is the recommended way of cloning. – Yamato Aug 06 '19 at 17:47
@Yamato No luck. :( Most likely the SSH port hasn't been whitelisted, and I have no clue how long it would take them to open it up. – ricksmt Aug 06 '19 at 18:04
Will this help? Set username globally and use credential helper to remember password. https://help.github.com/en/articles/caching-your-github-password-in-git – Yamato Aug 06 '19 at 18:15
This also can be a reference, https://stackoverflow.com/a/34627954/414785 – Yamato Aug 06 '19 at 18:18
@Yamato Credential helper is already on, and auto-fetch is already off. :\ – ricksmt Aug 06 '19 at 18:57

VS Code git pull only works when Visual Studio (2017) is running

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