Why does tortoisegit never prompt me for a password (and fail because missing creds)?

Question

I have reinstalled tortoisegit twice now on my desktop, and for some reason it will never prompt me when working with my Google Code repo. I have the changes commited, I just want to sync them out. I am coming from tortoisesvn and tortoisehg where this is definitely possible. I am trying to convert my repo to git, but running into issues with the program not prompting for any kind of password, and then failing to sync out because of permissions.

Answer 1

Change the following setting to allow tortoise git to ask the username and password always:

TortoiseGit > Settings > Git > Credentials > Credential helper > select None