VS Code Git Initial Push Challenges

[Paul Lewallen]

I'm pushing a local repo to Bitbucket cloud from VS Code integrated terminal and authentication keeps failing.  There is a prompt in VS Code to enter the Bitbucket password and it won't accept the Bitbucket password because the integrated terminal keeps saying the authentication failed.  I changed the password in Bitbucket with the same result.  Then I installed the Atlassian extension into VS Code and I authorized Bitbucket Cloud and that didn't help authenticate.  Then I added my public SSH key to Bitbucket and I still see a prompt in VS Code for a password that subsequently fails when I paste the bitbucket password.  Bitbucket authentication is blocking my progress.

[Paul Lewallen · Accepted solution]

Forget it.  I created an App Password with repo permissions and it authenticated.  Make sure to document the App Password because you can only see it once.