git - Can't pull or push with Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2017

Question

I use Git with Visual Studio 2017. Since yesterday every time I try to push or pull from the remote repository with Team Explorer I get the following error:

Git failed with a fatal error.
HttpRequestException encountered.
   An error occurred while sending the request.
HttpRequestException encountered.
   An error occurred while sending the request.
cannot spawn askpass: No such file or directory
could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled

Answer 1

I have had this issue with my team on several different machines with several different users. We solved it with a single git command that sets the windows credentials globally to the credential.helper explained here

git config --global credential.helper wincred

After we fired off the above command, all clones, pushes and pulls worked like a charm. You would just have to make sure that the credentials you have stored in Windows Credentials are the ones that you want to use.