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SourceTree won't change Username to push

Ricardost

Hi There,

I have a simple but bugging problem: I fisrt tried to push files into a Git repository from my SourceTree, but mistyped my Username. Now SourceTree won't allow me to change the incorrect Username when I try to push my work into my Git repository, and so the files will not push.

Thanks in advance!

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HarryH

Did you try the "Authentication" tab under Tools>Options, you can modify information of saved users there.

Thanks
Harry

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HarryH

Please reset the global settings by running:

git config --global user.name "NewUserName"

git config --global user.email "mynew@mail.com"

After that, restart soruce tree to check if it works.

Ricardost

Hi Harry,

Thanks for your answer - I changed my username in global settings as you suggested (from my SourceTree terminal), and I checked using

git config --list

that it did indeed change. I restarted both SourceTree and my computer.

However, when I drive the "push" command, and SourceTree asks me for authentication, I am stuck with the old username, and my work still won't push :S

I also tried changing username "locally" with

git config user.name "NewUserName"

with the same result.

HarryH

Did you try the "Authentication" tab under Tools>Options, you can modify information of saved users there.

Thanks
Harry

Ricardost

Yes! That was it... Thanks!

Jeff Edwards

1. Under the Source Tree menu, select menu item 'Preferences'

2. Select 'Network' tab

3. Select the hostname you wish to edit

4. Click the 'Edit' button and change the incorrect username.

5. Done!

sidelkovsky

ThankYouThankYouThankYou! =]

Shannon Leslie

In Options -> Authentication, there is a second set of usernames as "default user names". The misspelled one is there. Select and delete it, then the next time you push/clone/etc, you will be reprompted for the username again.

Igor Ganapolsky

Good approach. The only thing is it doesn't let you save the password there in-place. You have to wait for the login prompt to appear.

jaraco

Either this is the answer for Windows or it's for older SourceTree versions. On Mac, I had to go to SourceTree | Preferences and select the Network tab.

Sudarsan K

Go to Tools > Options, choose Authentication tab, enter password in password field to reset.

ricardovigatti

Your tip was the fix for me, thanks.

Christopher Pri1

I'm guessing that many/all of these suggestions (aside from the command line ones) are for the Windows client. E.g., I don't see menu options such as "Tools" with the Mac client.

Christopher Pri1

OK-- I figured out at least my problem. There's a little settings button in the upper right of the window. Clicking that let me reset the creds.

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samnau

This should be the accepted answer.

DfKimera

This is actually the only way that to fix it on the Mac, now in 2016.

Pavle Mijatovic

This worked for me, I was very annoyed and always getting an "Authentication problem bla bla bla..." and didn't notice that the user was wrong.

aixapp

macOS Sierra:

sourcetree 2.6.3

mainmenu

- sourcetree

- preferences

- advanced (far right)

then remove (you can't edit passwords) the account where the credentials has changed.

duanyulei

thanks ,i resolve the question by your ways.

Bottle Liang

I had just registered an account to say thank you.

谢谢大哥。

hyun_son

On mac -> click sourcetree-> preferences -> advanced -> edit or remove your username.

This is on version 2.6.3

Madhu Tomy_gvk889

Awesome. This worked for me

bposeyyah

I actually had the settings correct, but what fixed the issue for me on Windows 10 was closing out the tab for the project in Sourcetree and then simply opening it again via the "+" button. Once I did that, the account that was associated with the commits (indicated above the text area for commit message) was shows the correct account (which was already set as my default)

YMMV, but it might be fixed to the account until you close that tab out and reopen it.

Version: 3.2.6 on Windows 10

proutskova

Thanks!

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