Git error remote: Empty password

Question

I\'m trying to clone my git repo from bitbucket, and when I enter this command:

git clone https://naor_shoyhat@bitbucket.org/naor_shoyhat/hello-world.git
         


        

Answer 1

I don't know which operating system you're using but in Windows there was a bug in the Git Credential Manager for Windows (GCM), v1.9, which I believe was bundled with git v2.12.1 for Windows.

It resulted in a "remote: empty password" error when trying to authenticate to BitBucket.

The issue was fixed in version 1.10 of GCM. The latest GCM installer can be found at: https://github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows/releases

The details of the issue can be found at: https://github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows/issues/399 The issue was raised on 24 March 2017, roughly about the time you started seeing your authentication problem.