Git keeps prompting me for a password

Question

I think you may have the wrong Git repository URL.

Open .git/config and find the [remote “origin”] section. Make sure you’re using the SSH one:

ssh://git@github.com/username/repo.git

You can see the SSH URL in the main page of your repository if you click Clone or download and choose ssh.

And NOT the https or git one:

https://github.com/username/repo.git
git://github.com/username/repo.git

You can now validate with just the SSH key instead of the username and password.

If Git complains that 'origin' has already been added, open the .config file and edit the url = "..." part after [remote origin] as url = ssh://github/username/repo.git

The same goes for other services. Make sure the address looks like: protocol://something@url

E.g. .git/config for Azure DevOps:

[remote "origin"]
    url = https://mystore@dev.azure.com/mystore/myproject/
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

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