From August 13, 2021, GitHub is no longer accepting account passwords when authenticating Git operations. You need to add a PAT (Personal Access Token) instead, and you can follow the below method to add a PAT on your system.
Create Personal Access Token on GitHub
From your GitHub account, go to Settings => Developer Settings => Personal Access Token => Generate New Token (Give your password) => Fillup the form => click Generate token => Copy the generated Token, it will be something like ghp_sFhFsSHhTzMDreGRLjmks4Tzuzgthdvfsrta
Now follow below method based on your machine:
For Windows OS ?
Go to Credential Manager from Control Panel => Windows Credentials => find git:https://github.com => Edit => On Password replace with with your GitHub Personal Access Token => You are Done
If you don’t find git:https://github.com => Click on Add a generic credential => Internet address will be git:https://github.com and you need to type in your username and password will be your GitHub Personal Access Token => Click Ok and you are done
For macOS ?
Click on the Spotlight icon (magnifying glass) on the right side of the menu bar. Type Keychain access then press the Enter key to launch the app => In Keychain Access, search for github.com => Find the internet password entry for github.com => Edit or delete the entry accordingly => You are done
For a Linux-based OS ?
For Linux, you need to configure the local GIT client with a username
and email address,
$ git config --global user.name "your_github_username"
$ git config --global user.email "your_github_email"
$ git config -l
Once GIT is configured, we can begin using it to access GitHub.
Example:
$ git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPOSITORY
> Cloning into `Spoon-Knife`...
$ Username for 'https://github.com' : username
$ Password for 'https://github.com' : give your personal access token here
Now cache the given record in your computer to remembers the token:
$ git config --global credential.helper cache
If needed, anytime you can delete the cache record by:
$ git config --global --unset credential.helper
$ git config --system --unset credential.helper
Now try to pull with -v to verify
$ git pull -v
Linux/Debian
(Clone as follows):
git clone https://<tokenhere>@github.com/<user>/<repo>.git
For PhpStorm
If you are using PhpStorm, go to menu Git => pull and select authentication via Personal Access Token. Enter your PAT it will allow to pull/push the changes.
