I get the following error when trying to push changes to github from the cygwin command promt on windows xp.
$ git push Password: [my-password-here] error: The requested URL returned error: 401 while accessing https://[username]:github.com/[username]/[repository-location]/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
Searches from google seemed to point at changing the path to the certificate file on windows, which i had already done in order to clone the repository.