Windows git: Fatal: TaskCanceledException encountered

Question

I have recently updated my git (2.7.4.windows.1). Since then pulling from github produces output like this:

$ git pull --rebase
Fatal: TaskCanceledException enco         


        

Answer 1

I just ran into this same problem and, in case it is missed in the comments for the accepted answer, the fix is:

git config --global credential.helper wincred

Credit to Hugo Allexis Cardona