GitLab remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied and fatal Authentication

Question

I am on mac OS unlike this post:

• 'git push origin MyBranchName' throws error "HTTP Basic: Access denied"

I have password conf

Answer 1

The only thing that worked for me was using https://username:Password@gitlab.com/user/projectgit instead of https://gitlab.com/user/projectgit. See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues/1654