Error encountered while cloning the remote repository with VS 2015 Update 3 (TFS 2015 Update 3)
After struggling with the above problem for a week, I posted the question today. But right after posting, I landed on a solution.
It has nothing to do with visual studio/tfs upgrade. I must have entered wrong tfs credential information (while checking remember me box). With remember me feature, the team explorer never gave me a chance to correct the credential information and probably kept using stored wrong credentials. Here is what I had to do to correct the issue:
- Control Panel\User Accounts\Credential Manager
- Remove any tfs related credentials.
- Launch visual studio
- It will now prompt you for tfs credential information.
Problem solved.
The following post (though dated) helped me in solving the problem: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2012/08/29/clearing-the-credentials-for-connecting-to-a-team-foundation-server/
Raghu
Updated on June 21, 2022Comments
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Raghu almost 2 years
I have recently upgraded to VS 2015 (Update 3) on the client side and TFS 2015 (Update 3) on server side. The Git operations worked for a while, then I started getting following error when trying to clone a git repo:
Error encountered while cloning the remote repository: An error occurred while sending the request. Inner Exception: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. Inner Exception: No credentials are available in the security package
But I can navigate to repo in the browser without any problems. Then, I figured this may due my client side settings. I tried removing the VS cache as well as TFS cache. Nothing worked. When I used Fiddler, it should following information:
It revealed following information:
Request 1: GET https://myhost/tfs/transact/Transact/_git/MY-REPO/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: git/1.0 (libgit2) Team Foundation (devenv.exe, 14.102.25521.0, Enterprise, SKU:37) Host: myhost Accept-Encoding: gzip Connection: Keep-Alive Response 1: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized ... Request 2: GET https://myhost/tfs/transact/Transact/_git/MY-REPO/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: git/1.0 (libgit2) Team Foundation (devenv.exe, 14.102.25521.0, Enterprise, SKU:37) Accept-Encoding: gzip Authorization: NTLM TlRMTVNTUAABAAAAB4IIogAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKAEM6AAAADw== Host: myhost Response 2: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
With this information, I searched for libgit2*.* file in my visual studio folders. I found several instances of LibGit2Sharp.dll. All of them have same version (0.22.0.0) but one instance had the version 14.0.25029.0. I tried copy the version 0.22.0.0 over on top of 14.0.25029.0. But visual studio complained about it during launch. The folder with 14.* version is found in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions" folder and it contains several dlls that start with "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.". All of those dlls have the version: 14.102.25521.0 (which is what I found in the fiddler trace).
Looks like I am at the right problem area but not sure how to fix the error.
Any ideas?
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DaImTo about 7 yearsYou are a life saver. I think i must have typed my email incorrectly the first time couldn't get it to pop up and ask me again. this was google cloud git credentials.