This content has 4 years. Some of the information in this post may be out of date or no longer work. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.When trying to sync or pull our repository from remote, it fails with the following error: In the output window, the error is the following: Go to Visual Studio’s Tools, and then Options, search for ‘Git’ in the searchbar. Select the Git Global Settings option, and find the ‘Credential helper’ setting, and set it from ‘Unset’ to: This should solve your problem.