GitHub authorization keeps popping up

[Dunridge77]

Type: Bug

I'm seeing an issue where autorization with GitHub popup keeps appearing and asking me to authorize. After I authorize and continue with my work this window appears again. I wrote a bash scripts to switch between github accounts (work and personal) and I think this switching causes the problem. How can I fix this?

VS Code version: Code 1.90.2 (5437499, 2024-06-18T22:34:26.404Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
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[lszomoru]

/gifPlease

[vscodenpa]

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[Dunridge]

@lszomoru

The popup:

Bash scripts:

The code used to switch between the gh accounts (different account credentials in each script):

git config --global user.name "***" & git config --global user.email "***" & npm config delete registry
cmd /k

My guess that the constant switching between the accounts causes this issue because after I get this popup and authorize with the current GH profile in a browser after about 15 minutes I get this popup again

[lszomoru]

@Dunridge77, thanks for the screenshot. I believe that this auth dialog comes from the GitHub CLI. Do you have the GitHub CLI installed? @TylerLeonhardt, I tend to remember you mentioning that there is a known issue with the GitHub CLI. Do you have any additional information about the issue? Thanks!

[Dunridge]

@lszomoru Yes, I have it installed. I use Git Bash to write git commands when setting up a repo and GH Desktop to commit/push

And this popup appears only when I open VS Code

[TylerLeonhardt]

There's this one... #217667

similar in that it's CLI related. What could be happening here, and this is a guess, VS Code is running certain git commands that shell out to the git credential manager which, in this case, is handled by the gh CLI.

In any case, since this is shown by the CLI, it'd be great if you could get an issue going over here:
https://github.com/cli/cli

VS Code isn't really to blame here, we just execute CLI commands to provide our git UI.

[Dunridge]

@TylerLeonhardt thank you, I opened the issue here -- cli/cli#9361 (comment)

[lszomoru]

Thanks for the update! I will go ahead and close this issue for now.