Git: force user and password prompt

Question

I recently updated my local Git installation to 1.8.1 from 1.8.0.1.

I\'m noticing that, when I work on GitHub, it doesn\'t prompt me for

Answer 1

None of those worked for me. I was trying to clone a directory from a private git server and entered my credentials false and then it wouldn't let me try different credentials on subsequent tries, it just errored out immediately with an authentication error.

What did work was specifying the user name (mike-wise)in the url like this:

   git clone https://mike-wise@collab.somewhere.net/someuser/somerepo.git