Git Push Error: Unable to persist credentials with the 'wincredman' credential store

Question

I'm using .NET to run a task that commits and pushes changes to a git repository on Azure, but I'm getting the error:

fatal: Unable to persist credentials with the 'wincredman' credential store.
See https://aka.ms/gcm/credstores for more information.

When I try to do the final git command I need to do: git push origin main

I also get:

Cygwin WARNING:
Couldnt compute FAST_CWD pointer. This typically occurs if youre using
an older Cygwin version on a newer Windows. Please update to the latest
available Cygwin version from https://cygwin.com/. If the problem persists,
please see https://cygwin.com/problems.html

before and

error: failed to execute prompt script (exit code 1)
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://[company].visualstudio.com': No such file or directory

after

but I do not believe that's causing the problem.

My commands are:

("PowerShell"); //so it can cd to the webshare. 

(@"cd \\[filepath]\");

(@"git add *"); //stage new files or changes

(@"git commit -m ""Daily Mainframe Repository Commit"" "); //commit changes

(@"git push origin main"); //push changes to repo

("exit");                  //Execute exit.

What does

fatal: Unable to persist credentials with the 'wincredman' credential store. See https://aka.ms/gcm/credstores for more information.

mean? I've looked at some documentation but that doesn't really help at diagnosis. Any ideas?

Answer 1

This fixed it for me under Windows 10 x64 and Git v2.43.0.windows.1:

git config --global credential.credentialStore dpapi

When I switched it back to wincredman the same error reappeared:

git config --global credential.credentialStore wincredman

More: https://github.com/git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager/blob/main/docs/credstores.md

I was using GitHub, I also generated a remote access token and reset the upstream repo:

git remote set-url origin https://username:[email protected]/username/repo.git

I generated the user access token under GitHub using [ Settings > Developer Settings > Personal Access Tokens > Tokens (classic) ]