Cannot load another project after first time

Last week I was able to clone a github repo and load it into IDX without any issue at all. Then today, I went to load another repo in and it failed. I picked a different repo than the original one to make sure no duplicate.

The first time I was able to authenticate with my private github repo and pull in the code without issue. However, since then, I cannot repeat that process. When I try to pull in a different repo, I get a series of error messages.

Here’s the error messages that I saw in the terminal (I changed the repo name below for privacy):

 *  Executing task: git clone https://github.com/acme/era-get-batch-posts.git /home/user/era-get-batch-posts 

fatal: destination path '/home/user/era-get-batch-posts' already exists and is not an empty directory.

 *  The terminal process "bash '-c', 'git clone https://github.com/acme/era-get-batch-posts.git /home/user/era-get-batch-posts'" failed to launch (exit code: 128). 
 *  Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.

I keep wondering if for some reason the github authentication has gotten lost.