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I get the following error when trying to push changes to github from the cygwin command promt on windows xp.
$ git push
Password: [my-password-here]
error: The requested URL returned error: 401 while accessing https://%5Busername%5D:github.com/%5Busername%5D/%5Brepository-location%5D/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
Searches from google seemed to point at changing the path to the certificate file on windows, which i had already done in order to clone the repository.
Turns out that my password is quite secure and contains the ‘£’ symbol. To get this on my keyboard it’s Shift+3 when typing my password into the command prompt it was producing a ‘#’ symbol. My keyboard settings are correct I’m guessing this issue is due to the cygwin window.
My solution was to change my github password so it doesn’t contain this character