How to get LFS to use saved project credentials?

Question

Hi there, I recently updated our repro to use LFS. Our team has pulled latest then been promoted in Source Tree to install the relevant LFS extensions. Then when relaunching source tree they are prompted to run "git lfs pull" as "it does not appear the binary content has been downloaded yet". When clicking Yes to download, after a few seconds, some of our team members are getting the following error:

git -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false lfs pull

Git credentials for https://MyName@MyProject.git not found.
Git credentials for https://MyName@MyProject.git not found.

Git LFS: (0 of 63 files) 0 B / 1.08 GB

Completed with errors, see above.

Running git 2.81 with git lfs 1.2.0 in Source Tree 1.9.6.0

Everyone has saved credentials in sourcetree and can log into their bitbucket accounts without issue. I have no idea how to fix this and much Googling has not helped us much either. We're game devs and this is our first git project.

Any help would be great.

password_dialog.png

guinzoo · Answer

I found some workaround, just go to Options -> Git, and hit Use Embedded Git.

Alex Goldberg_k4cpq2 · Answer

I hit this issue as well.  After some trial-and-error, I realized this was due to the fact that I had multiple Bitbucket accounts configured in SourceTree.  Even though "Account A" was my default, the error message was showing "Account B" as the username.

This was resolved when I removed "Account B" from SourceTree (File -> Clone/New... -> <Globe button> -> Edit Accounts...).

Oddly, both accounts had read/write access to my repository.

Max Pixel · Answer

Even though I do have xxx@ in my remote URL, this does not work for me. The only solution was to git pull from mingw instead of through the UI (which required entering the password for every single lfs download).