Mac OSX El Capitan. SourceTree 2.4. I cloned some remote repos a few couple of weeks ago, and have been pulling my team's updates in SourceTree with no issue. Unfortunately, I had to change my password on the remote system over the weekend, and now when I pull from the SourceTree toolbar, I get "fatal: Authentication failed for..." errors. I found that if I open a Terminal window for a given repo, and do "pull ", it asks for my new password once, and then works from the Terminal from that point on. However, it still continues to fail from within SourceTree, even after re-starting SourceTree. I cannot seem to figure out how to make SourceTree recognize my newly-entered password from the Terminal pull, or forget my previous one and ask me for the new one. What am I missing?

thanks, it worked :) Open keychain -> select login (password tap) then search for sourcetree, then deleted application password item from key chain.. start source tree again.. will ask to enter password again

Yes! That worked for me! I knew I was missing something.

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SourceTree "fatal: Authentication failed for..."

Jay Burgess

Mac OSX El Capitan. SourceTree 2.4. I cloned some remote repos a few couple of weeks ago, and have been pulling my team's updates in SourceTree with no issue.

Unfortunately, I had to change my password on the remote system over the weekend, and now when I pull from the SourceTree toolbar, I get "fatal: Authentication failed for..." errors.

I found that if I open a Terminal window for a given repo, and do "pull <repoName>", it asks for my new password once, and then works from the Terminal from that point on. However, it still continues to fail from within SourceTree, even after re-starting SourceTree.

I cannot seem to figure out how to make SourceTree recognize my newly-entered password from the Terminal pull, or forget my previous one and ask me for the new one. What am I missing?

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Jay Burgess

I just answered my own question. There is a SourceTree Application password stored in the login keychain. Deleting that caused SourceTree to prompt me for the new password. Not sure how I missed it the first time I searched.

Ralph Croly

thanks! this was driving me mad, and I hadnt even created a new password! not the most experienced mac user, thanks!

irinatari

How do you delete that?

drloading

this helped. thank you

Md Rashidul Hasan

Thank you so much it worked for me.

aayushkuma

Thank You so much !

ChaseBowman

How about for Windows?

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