How do I update the password for Git?

Question

I\'m using BitBucket with Xcode and Git for version control, and recently I changed all of my passwords (thanks Adobe!).

Unsurprisingly, I\'m no longer able

Answer 1

running git config --global --unset user.password followed by any git command would prompt you to enter username and password.

git config --global --unset user.password
git push (will prompt you for the password)
git status (will not prompt for password again)

Answer 2

To fix this on macOS, you can use

git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

A username and password prompt will appear with your next Git action (pull, clone, push, etc.).

For Windows, it's the same command with a different argument:

git config --global credential.helper wincred

Answer 3

None of the other answers worked for me on MacOS Sierra 10.12.4

Here is what I had to do:

git config --global --unset user.password

Then run your git command (ex. git push) and reenter your username and password.

Answer 4

you can change password through command line in 2 places, following would edit credentials to connect the repo

git config --edit 

The credentials also can be changed at global using global parameter like below

 git config --global --add user.password "XXXX"

or set the credentials helper with

git config --global credential.helper wincred

but if you have repo level credentials set the use the first command

git config --edit

Answer 5

Just clone one of your existing repos, this will prompt you for new credentials:
e.g.

git clone https://myuser@bitbucket.org/mypath/myrepo.git

// https://myuser@bitbucket.org/mypath/myrepo.git is an address of one of your existing repos.

Answer 6

There is such a confusion on this question, as there is way too much complexity in this question. First MacOS vs. Win10. Then the different auth mechanisms.

I will start a consolidated answer here and probably need some help, if I do not get help, I will keep working on the answer until it is complete, but that will take time.

Windows 10: | |--

MacOS: | |-- Using git config to store username and password: | git config --global --add user.password | |---- first time entry | git config --global --add user.password <new_pass> | |---- password update | git config --global --unset user.password | git config --global --add user.password <new_pass> | |-- Using keychain: | git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain | |---- first time entry | Terminal will ask you for the username and password. Just enter it, it will be | stored in keychain from then on. | |---- password update | Open keychain, delete the entry for the repository you are trying to use. | (git remote -v will show you) | On next use of git push or something that needs permissions, git will ask for | the credentials, as it can not find them in the keychain anymore.