Restoring repo credentials

Eitan Frachtenberg

I've recently had a catastrophic hard drive failure resulting in the loss of my local git repository. I'd like to be able to restore the latested committed version from my private bitbucket.org repo, but am unable to find the right credentials.

The local repo that was destroyed had its credentials stored locally so I can't access those. Conversely, when I log in to atlassian.com and search for repos, I don't see any, so it's possible the original (old) bitbucket repo used a different email address or credentials.

I found an older backup of the repo and using `git config --list` I can see the bitbucket url and the user.email used (which is different than my *only* Atlassian account email). How can I restore access to the original repo so I can pull the latest version from it?

Thanks in advance!

Patrik S

Hi @Eitan Frachtenberg ,

 

and welcome to the Community!

I'm sorry to hear about your hard drive issue. Unfortunately, the content cannot be accessed without access to the email address linked to the original Bitbucket account. Atlassian uses the email tied to the account to verify ownership of content.

If you can regain access to the old email, you can use it to log in or reset the account password. Without it, we recommend checking if you have any other backups or reaching out to your email provider for help recovering the old address.

Let me know if you have other questions.

Thank you, @Eitan Frachtenberg !

Patrik S