Why is Vundle asking for my github password?

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I entered my github password when installing plugins with vundle and I don't know what it was for.

I'm new with vim and i'm trying to install plugins with vundle so I modified mi vimrc file to include plugins and then ran `:PluginInstall" where one of the plugins asked for my github user and password, and I typed it in but now I don't know who I gave that password to or what for, does anyone know? should I change my password?

This is part of my vimrc file

Plugin 'scrooloose/nerdtree'                                                                                                                                
Plugin 'majutsushi/tagbar'                                                                                                                                  
Plugin 'jakedouglas/exuberant-ctags'                                                                                                                        
Plugin 'junegunn/fzf'                                                                                                                                       
Plugin 'Shougo/neocomplete.vim'                                                                                                                             
Plugin 'Townk/vim-autoclose'                                                                                                                                
Plugin 'vim-syntastic/syntastic'
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I typed it in but now I don't know who I gave that password to or what for,

This should be strictly local: check your git config credential.helper value: that is probably Git asking for your credentials to cache them, avoiding to ask them every time.

As to why Vundle triggered that credential request... see google/vim-maktaba issue 160

Sorry guys, there was a typo in the plugin name (en dash instead of hyphen). Fixed it and works now.