I\'ve set up a local git repository on my computer, and I\'m trying to push that to a newly created Bitbucket account.
The problem is that Bitbucket gives me an s
You can connect to GitHub and Bitbucket repositories via HTTPS. Both will also let you push.
These are the typical URLs for HTTPS access:
https://username@bitbucket.org/username/repository.git
https://github.com/username/repository.git
Note that Git will prompt you for your password whenever you want to communicate with the remote.
I wanted to add that SourceTree somehow wants it without the username:
https://bitbucket.org/username/repository.git
Https addresses on GitHub are read-only. As far as I know, SSH is your only option if you need write access. See poke's answer.
Btw your slashes are wrong, it's ssh://
and https://
Have you tried using?
git@bitbucket.org:accountname/reponame.git
You may take a look here