How to switch github account using git without deleting credentials in manage windows credentials manager?

Question

I have been referring this , whenever I want to add one of my project from one account repo(source) to another account repo(destination).

So I first do this . And when I try to push into the destination repo ( I have created another folder out of source folder for destination, where I have pulled stuff from destination repo before pushing ) it will give me the following error(as we can see in the video here ):

remote: Permission to destination_userName/destination_Repo.git denied to source_Repo.
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/dest_userName/dest_Repo.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

After pull, configuring user.name, user.email, it still gives that error.

So I have been following solution from video but it is tiresome to delete credentials everytime and add again for both accounts. I also tried creating SSH Key and adding into destination github account. But that also not worked for me.

Is there any other solution to work it out?

Answer 1

If Windows credential manager is working, credential.helper has been set to manager . To use another account, you could either add the account to the repository URL or specify credential.username . foo is the new account.

git push https://foo@github.com/dest_userName/dest_Repo.git bar

or

git -c credential.username=foo push origin bar

The first one is a bit troublesome if you need to type or paste the long URL every time. You could add a new remote for it,

git remote add baz https://foo@github.com/dest_userName/dest_Repo.git
git push baz bar

You mentioned you had created and added SSH key but it couldn't work. It could be because you still used the HTTPS URL ( origin , aka https://github.com/dest_userName/dest_Repo.git/ ). Instead, the SSH URL is expected, which is git@github.com:dest_userName/dest_Repo.git .

git push git@github.com:dest_userName/dest_Repo.git bar

or

git remote add baz git@github.com:dest_userName/dest_Repo.git
git push baz bar