I used to use SSH to clone/push/pull my projects, but I heard nowadays I can use Git Credential Manager instead of SSH.
On a new computer, without configuring SSH, I installed Git Credential Manager. When I try to push/pull from my old repo, or clone a new repo, I expect an auth window to popup. However, I simply get “Permission denied (publickey)”.
How do configure Git Credential Manager on a new computer and use it instead of SSH?
After installing Git Credential Manager,
- if you want to clone a repo, you should use the
httpsurl, not thegit@xxxurl that you used to use with ssh. - if you want to push/pull from within an old project folder where you used ssh before, you need to change the remote url from
git@xxxto thehttpsone.
To see if your previous repo used the ssh remote:
cd my-old-project
git remote -v
To change it to https:
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/my_username/my-repo-name.git
Then you can start working on it normally, for instance git fetch, and Git Credential Manager will handle the rest.