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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.

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Turns out that my password is quite secure and contains the '£' symbol. To get this on my keyboard it's Shift+3 when typing my password into the command prompt it was producing a '#' symbol. My keyboard settings are correct I'm guessing this issue is due to the cygwin window.

My solution was to change my github password so it doesn't contain this character

Scott Littlewood
This actually help me to realize that 'select is not broken'. I had issues with git and https, but I was simply using the wrong password. Doh!
loraderon