Not sure, but I may have had a similar problem and doing (in the shell):
git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://
solved it.
On Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 1:42:13 PM UTC-4, Andreas Lobinger wrote:
>
> Hello colleagues,
>
> like with similar problems, i don't know how i ended up there, but my
> question is how to avoid
> Being asked for githup authentification for a package that exists only
> locally (i.e. has no remote on github or similar)?
>
> julia v0.4.5 was not updated for long, but yesterday i ran a Pkg.update()
> and today with a Pkg.update i'm asked for githup username and passwd?
>
> Any idea?
>
> Wishing a happy day,
> Andreas
>
