SourceTree won't change Username to push
Asked by Ricardost:

Hi There,

I have a simple but bugging problem: I fisrt tried to push files into a Git repository from my SourceTree, but mistyped my Username. Now SourceTree won't allow me to change the incorrect Username when I try to push my work into my Git repository, and so the files will not push.

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: HarryH
body: Did you try the "Authentication" tab under Tools\>Options, you can modify information of saved users there.

Thanks  
Harry

comments: author: Ricardost
body: Yes! That was it... Thanks!


author: Igor Ganapolsky
body: Good approach. The only thing is it doesn't let you save the password there in-place. You have to wait for the login prompt to appear.


author: jaraco
body: Either this is the answer for Windows or it's for older SourceTree versions. On Mac, I had to go to SourceTree \| Preferences and select the Network tab.


author: Jason Robinson
body: is there a way to manually add another user to SourceTree? I have many different users for GitHub and I need to be able to chose which user to use for a repo.


author: Tom Bates
body: Doesn't work for me. I've so far found no way to restore my correct username. Under Tools-\>Options-\>Authentication, both the Saved Passwords and Default User Names are empty - all deleted. I updated the global user.name but it is nowhere to be seen. When I try to Pull the current branch, I get the Authenticate dialog with username "git" which cannot be altered, along with a password entry box.

BTW, the command line works fine. "git fetch origin" and "git pull" complete without error.


author: karunkamal
body: MAC USERS:   

Annwer below by [@aixapp](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1154089) is whats needed if you are stuck to change username


author: Jeff Edwards
body: 1. Under the Source Tree menu, select menu item 'Preferences'

2. Select 'Network' tab

3. Select the hostname you wish to edit

4. Click the 'Edit' button and change the incorrect username.

5. Done!

comments: author: sidelkovsky
body: ThankYouThankYouThankYou! =\]


author: samnau
body: This should be the accepted answer.


author: Pavle Mijatovic
body: This worked for me, I was very annoyed and always getting an "Authentication problem bla bla bla..." and didn't notice that the user was wrong.


author: aixapp
body: macOS Sierra:

sourcetree 2.6.3

mainmenu

- sourcetree

- preferences

- advanced (far right)

then remove (you can't edit passwords) the account where the credentials has changed.

![Screen_Shot_2017-10-01_at_13_31_44.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/7091iACBEC66D02071842/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen_Shot_2017-10-01_at_13_31_44.png")

comments: author: duanyulei
body: thanks ,i resolve the question by your ways.


author: Bottle Liang
body: I had just registered an account to say thank you.

?????


author: proutskova
body: Thanks!


author: Christopher Prince
body: OK-- I figured out at least my problem. There's a little settings button in the upper right of the window. Clicking that let me reset the creds.

Screen Shot 2016-06-22 at 5.44.09 PM.png  
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comments: author: DfKimera
body: This is actually the only way that to fix it on the Mac, now in 2016.


author: Shannon Leslie
body: In Options -\> Authentication, there is a second set of usernames as "default user names". The misspelled one is there. Select and delete it, then the next time you push/clone/etc, you will be reprompted for the username again.


author: HarryH
body: Please reset the global settings by running:  
`git config --global user.name "NewUserName"`  
`git config --global user.email "mynew@mail.com"`  
After that, restart soruce tree to check if it works.

comments: author: Ricardost
body: Hi Harry,

Thanks for your answer - I changed my username in global settings as you suggested (from my SourceTree terminal), and I checked using

git config --list

that it did indeed change. I restarted both SourceTree and my computer.

However, when I drive the "push" command, and SourceTree asks me for authentication, I am stuck with the old username, and my work still won't push :S

I also tried changing username "locally" with

git config user.name "NewUserName"

with the same result.


author: ricardovigatti
body: Your tip was the fix for me, thanks.


author: Madhu Tomy
body: Awesome. This worked for me


author: bposeyyah
body: I actually had the settings correct, but what fixed the issue for me on Windows 10 was closing out the tab for the project in Sourcetree and then simply opening it again via the "**+**" button. Once I did that, the account that was associated with the commits (indicated above the text area for commit message) was shows the correct account (which was already set as my default)

YMMV, but it might be fixed to the account until you close that tab out and reopen it.

Version: 3.2.6 on Windows 10


author: hyun_son
body: On mac -\> click sourcetree-\> preferences -\> advanced -\> edit or remove your username.

This is on version 2.6.3


author: Christopher Prince
body: I'm guessing that many/all of these suggestions (aside from the command line ones) are for the Windows client. E.g., I don't see menu options such as "Tools" with the Mac client.


author: Sudarsan K
body: Go to Tools \> Options, choose Authentication tab, enter password in password field to reset.


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