A lot of us are currently having the issue where we aren't able to push changes to GitHub anymore and getting a
fatal: Authentication failed for error.

This is because the newest version of VS Code (1.62.2) introduced this bug.

CodePudding user response：

The way I solved it was by downgrading it to 1.62.1 & now it works perfectly again.

I'm on Linux, so this may not apply or work for you, but it should if all VS Code versions are the same across all OSs.

CodePudding user response：

Same problem for me on Linux, and I confirm that downgrading to 1.62.1 works. I reported the issue in the GitHub VS Code repo.