Use own username password with git and bitbucket

Question

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

User · Answer

Well  it s part of BitBucket philosophy and workflow    Repository may have only one user  owner For ordinary accounts  end-user s  collaboration expect  fork-pull request  workflow   i e you can t  in usual case  commit into foreign repo under own credentials   You have two possible solutions     Classic  BB-way  fork repo  get owned by you repository   make changes  send pull request to origin repo Create  Team   add user-accounts as members of team  make Team owner of repository - it this case for this  Shared central  repository every team memeber can push under own credentials - inspect thg repository and TortoiseHg Team  owner of this repository  as samples

User · Answer

I figured I should share my solution  since I wasn t able to find it anywhere  and only figured it out through trial and error   I indeed was able to transfer ownership of the repository to a team on BitBucket   Don t add the remote URL that BitBuckets suggests   git remote add origin https   username bitbucket org teamName repo git   Instead  add the remote URL without your username   git remote add origin https   bitbucket org teamName repo git   This way  when you go to pull from or push to a repo  it prompts you for your username  then for your password  everyone on the team has access to it under their own credentials   This approach only works with teams on BitBucket  even though you can manage user permissions on single-owner repos

User · Answer

The prompt   Password for  https   theirusername bitbucket org     suggests  that you are using https not ssh  SSH urls start with git   for example   git bitbucket org beginninggit alias git   Even if you work alone  with a single repo that you own  the operation   git push   will cause   Password for  https   theirusername bitbucket org     if the remote origin starts with https   Check your remote with   git remote -v   The remote depends on git clone  If you want to use ssh clone the repo using its ssh url  for example   git clone git bitbucket org user repo git   I suggest you to start with git push and git pull for your private repo   If that works  you have two joices suggested by Lazy Badger    Pull requests Team work

User · Answer

I had to merge some of those good answers here  This works for me  git remote set-url origin  https   bitbucket org teamName repo git   In the end  it will always prompt anyone who wants to pull from it

User · Answer

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  lt url-with-your-username gt

User · Answer

Are you sure you aren t pushing over SSH  Maybe check the email associated with your SSH key in bitbucket if you have one

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For myself private repo  i use      git bitbucket org username blog git   replace      https   username bitbucket org username blog git

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