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

There appears to be some relation between the setting of proxy options inside your global .gitconfig file and the need to clear your credential helper setting from the system level. I recently removed git http-proxy and https-proxy settings from my file for security reasons, and began receiving this message, then a pause, then a prompt to log into my external git repository. This happened with every fetch, push or pull. I didn't want to replace the proxy settings in my .gitconfig, so here are the steps that worked for me:

git config --list --system

git config --list --global

These will give you listings of all your system and global level settings. This confirmed that it was set to credential.helper=manager in the system namespace, and credential.helper=wincred in the global namespace. To remove the interference on the system level:

git config --system --unset credential.helper

All git command reverted to normal, with no error messages or delays.