I m in a team of three two are working locally and I am working on the server My coworker set up the account but gave me full privileges to the repository I set my username and email in git git config --global user name bozdoz git config --global user email email email com and they are identical to my username and email on bitbucket org But when I pull or push to the repository it indicates their username in the prompt Password for https theirusername bitbucket org I was able to get a prompt for my password after trying to pull by indicating the URL with my username git pull https bozdoz bitbucket org path repo git and it said up-to-date and then when I pushed it said no-fast-forward I read that I need to specify the branch but I don t know how to do that in a push statement while I m also specifying the repo URL git push https bozdoz bitbucket org path repo git I am able to pull and push if my co-worker is around and can put his password in But this is also listing him as the author of the push and not me How can I pull and push to a repo branch as my own username

Use own username/password with git and bitbucket

Run

git remote -v

and check whether your origin's URL has your co-worker's username hardcoded in there. If so, substitute it with your own:

git remote set-url origin <url-with-your-username>

~ Answered on 2013-03-01 21:46:14