git pushes with wrong user from terminal

Question

I have an issue with git and my terminal.

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When I push commits from my terminal, git says I

Answer 1

What a pain in the butt!

problem:

1. create a repo on git hub
2. clone to local machine
3. can not push 403.

turns for unknow reason git push was using the wrong user. I have a couple of different git hub user ids. I work for 2 different companies and also have a student id

I am working on a mac. here is what I finally did

1) remove the credential.helper

• some how the credential helper got set to osxkeychain
• when I started keychain, click on login, passwords and searched for github I found 3 entries. I have no idea how keychain could possible know which one to use

a. you need to figure out where the credential.helper is configured

git config --local credential.helper
git config --global credential.helper
git config --system credential.helper

b. once find the correct fig file remove it as follows

git config --global --unset credential.helper

Now in my local repo I hacked the .git/config file

I changed

    url = https://github.com/aedavids/lab3RotationProject.git

to

    url = https://myGitHubUserId@github.com/aedavids/lab3RotationProject.git