Unable to authenticate for github.com with GitHub Two-factor authentication about sublime_merge HOT 12 CLOSED

I ended up creating a personal access token as described here: https://help.github.com/articles/accessing-github-using-two-factor-authentication/#using-two-factor-authentication-with-the-command-line. I have authenticated using it through the command line and Sublime Merge works like a charm now.

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Taking @FrankTheTank9's advice, I was able to finally resolve this.

1. Created a personal token for the command line
2. Updated my macOS keychain with the new personal token
3. In Terminal, ran a git command, and it re-prompted for my credentials. I typed in my username and used my personal token as the password

Sublime Merge now works beautifully!

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Just tried to generate an access token as described by @FrankTheTank9, used it as the password when asked in Sublime Merge and that solved the problem.

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=== App Version Information ===
Build: 1119

=== Git Version Information ===
Using Git: git (system)
git version 2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)
PATH: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin (from shell)
environment variables loaded using: /bin/bash -l

This is an issue in the current version. I was able to get around this using the instructions for an access token, but ignoring native 2FA is not a great option in your build either. Especially when GitHub Desktop GUI prompts for the 2FA, which is what this program is designed in part to replace.

Is there any status updates on if or when this might be fixed or implemented?

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is there any status on when this would be fixed?

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I had the same problem recently. I was able to pull from GitHub with no problems and suddenly Merge is asking me for credentials. When I enter the right ones I get an “Invalid username or password” error. Then I disabled 2FA in GitHub and everything worked properly. Afterwards I enabled 2FA again and the problem reappeared in Merge.

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Why is this suddenly appearing if I never had any auth problems? Maybe a password cache issue? (I see there is an menu option for that which in my case is disabled).

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Instructions above worked – thanks!

Hoping to get this fixed as well, i.e. it'd be great if Sublime Merge integrated 2FA support or even linked to a page saying how to perform these steps.

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Hi all,

Thank you for sharing your concerns on this issue.

This is the official advice from GitHub: https://github.blog/2013-09-03-two-factor-authentication/#how-does-it-work-for-command-line-git

As Sublime Merge wraps around command line Git itself, its behavior should match the command line.

I'm going to go ahead and close this issue, but please feel free to re-open it if you feel it has not been addressed adequately.

Thanks,
- Dylan

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I ran into this problem on Windows with Sublime Merge and git bash. (In trying to fix it I had also installed Github Desktop as well, but I prefer Sublime Merge.)

While I followed the instructions and created a PAT, in the end I never needed to enter it anywhere. After creating the token, I ran git merge --rebase from the git bash command line and the tool opened a github.com page in my browser. I confirmed that I wanted the github command line tool to have access to my github account and voilà, Sublime Merge now works without further login requests.

So If that's your setup, it may not actually be necessary to create a PAT, try just authenticating with the CLI first.

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