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GitHub Desktop for Windows Authentication failed #22560
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Hi, I’m a GitHub noob and I’m needing to use GitHub Desktop for an EdX course that I’m taking. A big part of it is to clone this **https://github.com/UBCx-Software-Construction/PracticeProblems. **Every time I go to clone I get an Authenticaiton failed error and it asks my username and password. I certainly have the correct credentials and I’ve tried a few other fixes such as logging out and in, deleting the github credentials in Windows and removing the authorization between github and github desktop then reactivating it. Any help would be very much appreciated so I can get started on this course! |
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@phwumph sorry to hear you are having trouble. It looks like the repository you are attempting to clone does not exist on GitHub – is this possibly the repository you are wanting to clone? https://github.com/UBCx-Software-Construction/TPD-practice-projects You can quickly clone this repository by clicking the green A quick note about this error in case anyone else runs across this – when you attempt to clone a repository that does not exist in GitHub Desktop it will throw an Let me know if you have any issues cloning the correct repository. |
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@phwumph sorry to hear you are having trouble. It looks like the repository you are attempting to clone does not exist on GitHub – is this possibly the repository you are wanting to clone?
https://github.com/UBCx-Software-Construction/TPD-practice-projects
You can quickly clone this repository by clicking the green
Clone or downloadbutton on the repository’s page and selectingOpen in Desktop. This will launch GitHub Desktop and allow you to choose a location to clone to.A quick note about this error in case anyone else runs across this – when you attempt to clone a repository that does not exist in GitHub Desktop it will throw an
authentication failederror, which is confusing since it…