How to authenticate an hg repo clone?

Question

I have an hg repo on Bitbucket that I need to convert to git.  The first step is to clone it to a local machine, but when I run the hg clone command I get the message

"http authorization required for <url>"

Tortoise hg  pops a box requesting password, but my current bitbucket pwd does not work.

How to proceed?

Thomas Sharpless · Answer

No real problem.  I just made a new git repo from local data.  The old hg repo was made before I started using my current Atlassian login.

Daniil Penkin · Answer

Hello @Thomas Sharpless,

Welcome to the Community.

Are you using two-factor authentication or single sign-on by any chance? Your regular credentials won't work for pulling/pushing in that case.

You have two options:

* set up app password with repository read scope and use it as your password
* set up SSH key and use it for pull/push operations

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Daniil