Since installing Git for Windows version 2.41.0.2 I now get a GitHub "Select an account" dialog

[cyclr-adrian]

• I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

• Which version of Git for Windows are you using? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ git --version --build-options

git version 2.41.0.windows.2
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 330483e35cabcdd966e0d4fee29153caaa9a2129
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
feature: fsmonitor--daemon

• Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?

$ cmd.exe /c ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.1992]

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?

# One of the following:
> type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "$env:USERPROFILE\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
$ cat /etc/install-options.txt

Editor Option: Notepad++
Custom Editor Path:
Default Branch Option: main
Path Option: Cmd
SSH Option: OpenSSH
Tortoise Option: false
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFAlways
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Git Pull Behavior Option: Merge
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Disabled
Enable Pseudo Console Support: Disabled
Enable FSMonitor: Disabled

• Any other interesting things about your environment that might be related
  to the issue you're seeing?

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Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

Windows Terminal / PowerShell 7.3.5

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
  Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
  this will help us understand the issue.

git push

• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

My code is pushed to GitHub

• What actually happened instead?

I get the following dialog box:

This dialog is new since installed Git for Windows version 2.41.0.2

• If the problem was occurring with a specific repository, can you provide the
  URL to that repository to help us with testing?

All repos affected.

[rimrul]

And did you click on

why am I being asked to select an account?

?

[cyclr-adrian]

I had 2 options to click on (not sure why) both called Personal Access Token .

I clicked on the first one and then clicked Continue and the command git push was then successful.

I have to do this every time (which is annoying ) I run commands like git push on the command line.

[rimrul]

That dialog is indeed new. git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1267

I was asking about the blue help link in your screenshot.
That links to https://github.com/git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager/blob/main/docs/multiple-users.md

And that document indeed has a section on how to make GCM pick one account by default.

https://github.com/git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager/blob/main/docs/multiple-users.md#tldr-tell-gcm-to-remember-which-account-to-use

[rimrul]

Looking a little further, you might be experiencing git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1325

This was fixed with GCM 2.2.2, which will be included in the next release of Git for Windows.

[cyclr-adrian]

Yes, I think your right that I might be experiencing git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1325

I ran:

git credential-manager github list

which returned one item in the list: Personal Access Token.

Then I ran:

git credential-manager github logout "Personal Access Token"

to remove the account.

Then I ran:

git credential-manager github login

and chose the option to authenticate using a browser, which took me to GitHub where I had to authorise the Git Credential Manager as a new OAuth application using my TOTP mobile application.

Then I ran:

git credential-manager github list

which returned one item in the list: {github_username}.

Now when I run:

git push

I no longer get the account selection dialog and the push completes sucessfully.

I'm not sure yet what effect running those commands above will have done to my instance of Visual Studio which also uses GitHub.

[cyclr-adrian]

Found an issue in the documentation so sent a PR to fix it: git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1334

[mjcheetham]

Looking a little further, you might be experiencing git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#1325

This was fixed with GCM 2.2.2, which will be included in the next release of Git for Windows.

Correct! And 2.41.0(3) was just release in the last moment, which includes the fixed GCM 2.2.2.

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.41.0.windows.3