Git on Bitbucket: Always asked for password, even after uploading my public SSH key

Question

I uploaded my ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to Bitbucket\'s SSH keys as explained, but Git still asks me for my password at every operation (such as git pull).

Answer 1

As explained here, if you clone with SSH url, you don't need to enter username / password each time you push / pull. Check above answer by @manojlds

But if you want to clone with HTTPS and want to avoid entering username / password each time, you can store credentials into cache with below command:

git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout 3600'

where 3600 (seconds) means 1 hour, you may change it as per your requirement.

Answer 2

• Step 1: Install git-credential-winstore
  https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/permanently-authenticating-with-git-repositories-776639846.html

• Step 2: git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout 3600'
  This will store your password for 1 hour

• Step 3: Run a git command that will prompt you for your password and the credential will prompt and store your password

Answer 3

I cloned the repository with HTTPS URL instead of SSH URL hence even after adding the SSH Key it was asking me for password on Bash Shell.

I just edited the ./.git/config file and changed the value of url variable by simply replacing the https:// to ssh://

E.g.

[core]
        ...
        ...
        ...
[remote "origin"]
        url = https://<username>@bitbucket.org/<username>/<repository_name>.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
        ...
        ...
        ...

Changed to:

[core]
        ...
        ...
        ...
[remote "origin"]
        url = ssh://<username>@bitbucket.org/<username>/<repository_name>.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
        ...
        ...
        ...