vscode: Git operations fail due to empty VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_EXTRA_ARGS

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

VS Code Version: 1.62.2
OS Version: Debian 12

Steps to Reproduce:

Run env | grep VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_EXTRA_ARGS returns VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_EXTRA_ARGS=
Move to a git repository and run git fetch returns: remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied
Run export VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_EXTRA_ARGS="--ms-enable-electron-run-as-node"
Running git fetch then works.

VSCODE_GIT_ASKPASS_EXTRA_ARGS should be set to --ms-enable-electron-run-as-node.

Output of process.versions in debug console:

ares: "1.16.1"
brotli: "1.0.9"
chrome: "91.0.4472.164"
electron: "13.5.2"
icu: "68.1"
llhttp: "2.1.3"
microsoft-build: "10663358"
modules: "89"
napi: "7"
nghttp2: "1.41.0"
node: "14.16.0"
openssl: "1.1.1"
unicode: "13.0"
uv: "1.40.0"
v8: "9.1.269.39-electron.0"
zlib: "1.2.11"

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Reactions: 12
Comments: 21 (6 by maintainers)

Links to this issue

git - "fatal: Authentication failed for" when pushing to GitHub from Visual Studio Code (1.62.2) - Stack Overflow

Commits related to this issue

Fixes #136771: update to Electron v13.5.2 and pass `--ms-enable-run-as-node` together with `ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE` — committed to microsoft/vscode by deepak1556 3 years ago

Most upvoted comments

Fix is now available with latest insiders Version: 1.63.0-insider (d450b04c783dfa6f83dc439017767acccd4e9fac) and will be shipped with recovery release 1.62.3 later this week. Please give it a try and sorry for the breakage!

Also many thanks to @gjsjohnmurray for triaging duplicates!

deepak1556 on Nov 17, 2021

The problem is not limited to the terminal, builtin git operations fail as well.

vscode2

tpambor on Nov 15, 2021

I can confirm that the insider build is working now. Thanks @deepak1556 and others involved!

tpambor on Nov 17, 2021

Thanks @deepak1556 and @tpambor Just added “git.terminalAuthentication”: false to .vscode/settings.json which allows auth creds to be passed via terminal. Once the fix is released, “git.terminalAuthentication” in settings.json to true which is the default value or even removed to avoid confusion.

vasudev-gm on Nov 15, 2021

I am using the deb package https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable/main amd64 code amd64 1.62.2-1636665017.

vscode

First git fetch is not asking for credentials instead fails directly.

code.log

tpambor on Nov 15, 2021

The same problem is also present in 1.62.1. 1.62.0 is the last working version.

tpambor on Nov 14, 2021

My issue was closed and was pointed back to this issue, which is supposed to be fixed in 1.62.3. However this issue is still not fixed for me in 1.62.3, Ubuntu 21.04

On any git command, eg a: git fetch:

remote: Repository not found.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/some-repo.git/'

Leigh-M on Nov 21, 2021

The same problem is present in INSIDER build also

Pinche-Dev on Nov 16, 2021