Pushing to Github prompts for password to incorrect url

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Not sure exactly what this did but now when I try to push, I get

Password for 'https://--global@github.com':

previous to the problem of the url now having --global in it which is incorrect I had run this command:

git config --global credential.helper store
git config credential.username "dsmith"
git config credential.user --global "dsmith"
git config credential.email --global "dsmith@gmail.com"

so that must have screwed things up. I want to fix this, not sure how. I have no idea how this messed up the github url and put --global in it, I thought the above were legit commands.

I at least set it back to using the oskeychain as the helper

git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

the global needs to be before the credentials `https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35942754/how-to-save-username-and-password-in-git` — Toerktumlare, Jan 01 '20 at 04:18
`git config credential.user --global "dsmith"` will set the username to --global, and then ignore your username. Mistakes where made — Toerktumlare, Jan 01 '20 at 04:19
I updated it now with `git config --global credential.user "dsmith"` but it still shows 'https://--global@github.com' — PositiveGuy, Jan 01 '20 at 04:21
also I understand that credential.user is not the same as your git username? — PositiveGuy, Jan 01 '20 at 04:24
that is true, the credentials is what you use when pushing a commit/logging into github, while your username is what declare who did each commit. — Toerktumlare, Jan 01 '20 at 04:32

score -1 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 01 '20 at 07:19

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Consider this one-line code:

git config --global credential.username "dsmith"

edited Jan 01 '20 at 07:19

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Pushing to Github prompts for password to incorrect url

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