Visual Studio Code always asking for git credentials

Question

I started using Visual Studio Code, and I was trying to save my test project into GitHub, but Visual Studio Code is always asking for my GitHub credentials.

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Answer 1

After fighting with something like this for a little while, I think I came up with a good solution, especially when having multiple accounts across both GitHub and BitBucket. However for VSCode, it ultimately ended up as start it from a Git Bash terminal so that it inherited the environment variables from the bash session and it knew which ssh-agent to look at.

I realise this is an old post but I still really struggled to find one place to get the info I needed. Plus since 2017, ssh-agent got the ability to prompt you for a passphrase only when you try to access a repo.

I put my findings down here if anyone is interested: