git error: fatal: Authentication failed for

Question

I am trying to push a branch to a repo on tfs and I am getting this error: fatal: Authentication failed for xxxxxxxxx

I tried adding credentials to the credentials manger as answered here but it didn't work

any idea what's wrong here?

You looked at all the answers on that question? Namely ... https://stackoverflow.com/a/51848851/10761889? — Matt, Sep 23 '20 at 19:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 24 '20 at 09:50

You can try using Personal access token by adding an extra header to Git commands. See below:

$MyPat = 'yourPAT'
$B64Pat = [Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes(":$MyPat"))
git -c http.extraHeader="Authorization: Basic $B64Pat" clone http://tfsserver:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/_git/projectName

See document here for more information.

git error: fatal: Authentication failed for

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