Password request dialog continually displays

[Glenn Taylor]

We recently decommissioned an old server that was an internal GIT remote. Now the password dialog "Windows Security"  "Git Credential Manager for Windows" prompts quite often for my username / password. I click Cancel or enter my credentials but it just reappears shortly. This starts fairly soon after I open SourceTree but continues after I close it.

I have removed all accesses that I can find, and even did a text search for the server name and edited it out of some SourceTree data files to no avail. I removed all references in the Windows credential manager that I could find. Right now, I just ignore the dialog and things all work fine.

Any ideas on how to clear out the reference to this server?

[Mikael Sandberg]

You can try this, run this in Git Bash/command line

 git config --edit --system

and remove helper = manager and save the change.

Also run git config --edit --global and under [core] set askpass to

askpass = 

That should hopefully take care of it.

[Glenn Taylor]

Doesn't that just turn off the feature of using the credential manager? I have other repos that I want to use the manager for. I just need to remove this obsolete one from the list. I will experiment with these settings when it gets too annoying though.

[Mikael Sandberg]

Yes, it will turn off the Git Credential Manager for Windows, but not the one that SourceTree is using.