Does Git Bash determine identify by ssh key?

Question

It\'s going on day 3 and I have still not been able to resolve the following issue:

I originally created a GitHub account 2 years ago. I believe I generated an SSH key f

Answer 1

I think the key here is that you used HTTPS to clone the new repository.

I suspect that your credentials are being cached by the credentials helper. See this:

https://help.github.com/articles/caching-your-github-password-in-git/#platform-windows

On windows, if you've used the wincred helper (git config --global credential.helper wincred), then this stores your credentials in the Windows credential store which has a Control Panel interface where you can delete or edit your stored credentials. See this for instance:

With this store, your details are secured by your Windows login and can persist over multiple sessions. This was added in Git for Windows 1.8.1.1.

So either:

1. Try clearing the credential cache for your https cloned repo using the following and try again:

   git credential-osxkeychain erase host=github.com protocol=https

OR,

2. Edit the credentials using the Windows control panel's Credential Manager.