Intellij / Pycharm：推送到私有远程github存储库时凭据不匹配

Question

I have two accounts on github: account1 and account2 .

I am trying to push to a private remote repo ( repo2 ) on github that has write access for account2 . However, I keep getting the error message: Failed with Error: repository 'remote@github.com' not found .

This is because it is not able to authenticate the credentials for account2 . I am able to push fine through commandline: git push https://account2:password@github.com/repo master

If I do the same thing of account1 for a repository ( repo1 ) that has write access for account1 then everything works fine. Interestingly, if I give write access to account1 on repo2 , then also push goes through. This means, pycharm has somehow hardwired account1 credentials in it.

• The username-password in preferences in pycharm is set to account2 .
• I found this blog post: http://danielhnyk.cz/pycharm-error-fatal-could-not-read-remote-repository/ , that suggests that for remote push/pull pycharm uses the default ssh credentials isa_pub . I tried replacing the default isa_pub with the ssh-key for account2 , but that also didn't help.

tl;dr Question: Two github accounts, two different private repos. How do I configure pycharm to use repo specific user credentials to allow remote push/pull?

Using pycharm 2016.3.2 on OS XY 10.10.4

In Addition: account1 doesn't even have a ssh authentication setup with github, still pycharm defaults to use credentials for account1

Answer 1

Seems what you need here is support of several GitHub accounts, which is not possible atm https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-82222

If you just want to change one account to another, note, that IDE replies on the command line git client. It seems like command line git client cached credentials on its own and uses accoutn1 for all connections to GitHub. You could try totally disabling git credential helper on the repository and check if the issue stays.