Cannot Commit/Push updates to Github

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Not sure if this is GitHub that changed (but did check by access rights etc. and all is in order)

I cannot commit/Push my changes into my GitHub Repository since Monday (and I have made a fair few changes within my scripts and Object repositories.

I get a login pop-up (attached) - after selecting cancel I get a “Problem Occured” pop-up - also attached
Login pop-up Error pop-up

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Beginning August 13th, 2021, GitHub no longer accepts account passwords when authenticating Git operations on GitHub.com. This change was announced in December 2020:

Now you need to use either of

  1. Personal Access Token Authentication
  2. SSH Key Authentication
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Hi @Kayleen,

The simplest way is that you create a Github Personal Access Token then put it in the password field of the Login dialog in Katalon Studio.

Thanks

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I activated Two Factor Authentication when I received the initial email from GitHub.

I have just tried using my Personal Access Token but no luck :frowning:

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Sorry, I have no easy answer to your case.

Read the following articles to learn the background.

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I have now resorted to installing the GitHub Desktop App but when trying to Commit I get the attached: image

Note: It accepted my Personal Access Token and managed to do one Commit since asking about this, but now I’m stuck again with not being able to commit my changes.

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If you make a Google search with key “Git A lock file already exists in the repository, which blocks this operation from completing”, then you will find a lot of posts discussing about the same problem as you got. For example,