Change GIT login/username in IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, RubyMine etc

Question

Authentication login/username for my GIT account changed. How do I tell this to my IntelliJ product?

Answer 1

GIT record login-name in remote repository URL. You can change that in IntelliJ product in couple of ways.

Quick way

• Type CTRL + SHIFT + A to open Enter action or option name dialog
• Type Remotes... to filter the list as in image
• Select Remotes... for Git (first selection on image) and following dialog is openede
• In Git Remotes dialog, use pencil icon to open Define Remote dialog
• Press OK to confirm
• Re-enter your password and optionally have IntelliJ store it.

Point and Click way

• Select VCS menu
• Hover on Git menu item
• Select from sub-menu Remotes...
• Continue as described above

Terminal way

• Open Terminal in your IntelliJ tool ALT + F12
• Enter command git ls-remotes --get-url to see your current remotes
• Enter command with modified username git remotes set-url https://my_new_user@my.git.server/path/to/project.git

Answer 2

i met this problem before, and solved it by steps:

1. open terminal
2. input git command that needs to communicate with git server, like git pull origin <your branch>
3. input username and password ( because the stored password by idea can't be authorized, so the server will ask you to input username and password)
4. done. (idea will update the password to the user)