Cannot push to Bitbucket via https anymore: git returns fatal error

Question

I recently reinstalled windows and got the latest version of git. I created a new repo on Bitbucket and ran

git remote add origin https://[email protected]/MYUSERNAME/test.git

then I ran

git push -u origin --all

however this gave me the error

fatal: could not read Password for 'https://[email protected]': No such
file or directory

before I would just get a prompt asking me for my username and password, and the push worked fine. I've tried reverting to Git 1.7.11 but this didn't do anything.

Solution 1

What I did was to change the protocol from HTTPS to GIT.

Followed the instructions to setup SSH here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Set+up+SSH+for+Git

(easy from the GitBash console, you don't need to install SSH or nothing, all comes with Git)

After you completed the SSH setup, just re-add the remote with the git@bitbucket.... url and you are done.

Hope this helps.

I have installed Git version 1.8.5.2-preview20131230

Solution 2

I solved this by adding my password in the url.

Instead of:

git remote add origin https://[email protected]/MYUSERNAME/test.git

I used:

git remote add origin https://MYUSERNAME:[email protected]/MYUSERNAME/test.git

Solution 3

I got this error when updated git to 1.8.5.2. When I rolled git to version 1.7.10 (initial version), the error disappeared.

Solution 4

As I really needed to use HTTPS instead of SSH (proxy limitations), I've solved it by setting the remote push url to the HTTPS url as follow:

git remote set-url --push origin https://[email protected]/MYUSERNAME/test.git

git version 1.9.5

Solution 5

I had the same problem. Installing Git 1.9.0 solved it for me.

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Comments

[Krzysztof Jabłoński]

That's kinda intimidating. Won't a guy with a net wire sweeper see your password as you type it along with the username and the target?