git pull gives error: 401 Authorization Required while accessing https://git.foo.com/bar.git

Question

My macbook pro is able to clone/push/pull from the company git server. My cent 6.3 vm gets a 401 error

git clone https://git.acme.com/git/torque-setup
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Answer 1

I would update the git version: 1.7.10 (or thereabouts) had authentication improvements. It's possible that these improvements were only related to proxies though -- I've forgotten the details already.

Speaking of proxies, you could double-check git config: You wouldn't have proxies or anything like that configured on the macbook but not on the cent machine?

Answer 2

I had the same error:

error: The requested URL returned error: 401 while accessing 
fatal: HTTP request failed

To fix it, I did the following:

check git version: 1.7.1
update git