git: 'credential-osxkeychain' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. fatal: Authentication failed

[swathi konakondla]

git: 'credential-osxkeychain' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
fatal: Authentication failed

error: unable to read askpass response from '/Applications/SourceTree.app/Contents/Resources/Askpass'

getting this error when i am pushing to the repositroy from source tree

[KieranA]

Hi Swathi,

The reason for this is because you most likely have a hook which gets your password from the keychain. It can't work because that config doesn't work with embedded git. You can either switch to using system git in your SourceTree preferences or resolve using something similar to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13661354/github-for-mac-error-git-credential-osxkeychain-is-not-a-git-command

Hope that helps

[Ahmad Mohamad Zain]

this alloys happens with source tree app and the solution that you change the settings to use the system git not the embedded git with source-tree because source tree is using an older version

[Yair Szarf]

after a lot of looking around, this fixed it for me, Thanks!

[KieranA]

Just an update on this. We have 'fixed' this, but the error may still be present. It's not an error, it's more of a warning (the osxkeychain) just to say it couldn't find the authentication helper that's configured. It won't cause authentication to fail through SourceTree, it just won't use one that's set up.

Cheers