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Reputation: 3459

How to add a new github token for an existing private repo?

I had to revoke the old Github token for a private repo.

Now generated a new token from Github.

How to add this old token to the existing repo?

Without updating this new token push/pull is failing:

git push origin master          
remote: Invalid username or password.
fatal: Authentication failed for....

I know how to solve this problem if I can re-clone the repo. However, I want to avoid cloning the repo again.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3165

Answers (3)

sekR4
sekR4

Reputation: 11

You could also do it in one line. Had the same problem. This worked for me:

git remote set-url origin https://<USER>:<TOKEN>@github.com/<USER>/<REPO>.git

Upvotes: 1

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Reputation: 3459

I have to edit the .git/config and update the URL with the user correct token.

[remote "origin"]
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
    url = https://<user>:<token-id>@github.com/user/repo.git

Here token-id is set to the updated one.

Upvotes: 4

Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller

Reputation: 605

GitHub tokens actually exist at an account level and not a repo level.

See these instructions on how to add a token to your account: https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account

Upvotes: -1

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