FAQ

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1. "Bad Credentials" Error
2. Custom key bindings
3. Watcher

1. <a name="credentials"></a> "Bad Credentials" Error <small>^{Top ▲}</small>

Some users have trouble pushing/pulling from remotes and adding their ssh-key to their ssh-agent solved the issue. The error they get is:

See Github's excellent documentation for Adding your SSH Key to the ssh-agent

Note that in some cases adding the line ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_ed25519(or whatever your key is called) to your bash init script is necessary too to survive restarts.

2. <a name="keybindings"></a> Custom key bindings <small>^{Top ▲}</small>

If you want to use vi-style keys or customize your key bindings in any other fashion see the specific docs on that: key config

3. <a name="watcher"></a> Watching for changes <small>^{Top ▲}</small>

By default, gitui polls for changes in the working directory every 5 seconds. If you supply --watcher as an argument, it uses a notify-based approach instead. This is usually faster and was for some time the default update strategy. It turned out, however, that notify-based updates can cause issues on some platforms, so tick-based updates seemed like a safer default.

See #1444 for details.