Where USERNAME is your GitHub username and TOKEN is an authentication token you’ve generated from within the GitHub security settings. After adding your options, save and close the file.

Credential confusion. Now here’s the problem. When anyone is presented with a form with two fields, the first instinct is to provide your username and password, but that is not what Git asks for..

Where USERNAME is your Git username. Next, set the email address associated with your Git account (again from Git Bash) with the command: git config --global user.email "EMAIL" ...