Bitbucket git pull fails with authentication, while git push works

VladLeg

Hello,

I am dealing with a very frustrating Bitbucket authentication issue and have been trying to resolve it for several hours.

Repository:

https://bitbucket.org/greenunion/greenshop.git

I am the only developer working on this project and have access to the repository.

The strange part is that git push works perfectly:

To https://bitbucket.org/greenunion/greenshop.git

af8ef92..7b8d3c8  dev -> dev

However, git pull consistently fails with:

remote: You may not have access to this repository or it no longer exists in this workspace.

If you think the repository exists and you have access, make sure you are authenticated.

 

fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://bitbucket.org/greenunion/greenshop.git/'

Initially, Git redirected me to an OAuth callback:

http://localhost:34106/?code=...

After that, I received:

fatal: Unknown OAuth error

along with an AWS WAF Human Verification / CAPTCHA page.

I checked my configuration:

git config --show-origin --get-all credential.bitbucketAuthModes

 

file:C:/Users/User/.gitconfig basic

Git Credential Manager:

Git Credential Manager 2.7.3

Remote:

origin https://greenunion-admin@bitbucket.org/greenunion/greenshop.git

I also cleared the stored Bitbucket credentials and authenticated again through the Atlassian login window using:

Username: greenunion-admin

Password or token: API token

But the result is still:

Authentication failed

Both commands fail:

git pull

git fetch origin

while:

git push

works successfully.

So my question is:

Why would Bitbucket accept git push to the same repository but reject git pull / git fetch over HTTPS?

 

Viswanathan Ramachandran

This is likely an authentication-method/token-scope issue rather than a repository-access issue.

git pull fails during git fetch, which Bitbucket authorises as a read operation. git push is authorised separately as a write operation. If the exact same HTTPS credential were being used for both, push succeeding while fetch fails would be unusual, so Git Credential Manager is probably using a different cached credential or OAuth path for fetch.

The Unknown OAuth error plus the AWS WAF/CAPTCHA page is the key clue: GCM is attempting OAuth, but Bitbucket’s WAF is returning an HTML verification page instead of the OAuth response GCM expects.

I would force GCM to use Basic authentication with a fresh Bitbucket API token, remove all existing Bitbucket entries from Windows Credential Manager, and ensure the token includes both repository read and write scopes:

git config --global --unset-all credential.bitbucketAuthModes

git config --global credential.bitbucketAuthModes basic

git config --global credential.useHttpPath true

git remote set-url origin https://x-bitbucket-api-token-auth@bitbucket.org/greenunion/greenshop.git

Then run:

git ls-remote origin HEAD

git fetch origin

When prompted, use x-bitbucket-api-token-auth as the username and the newly created API token as the password. The token should include read:user, read:workspace, read:repository, and write:repository Bitbucket scopes.

If OAuth/CAPTCHA still appears after setting credential.bitbucketAuthModes=basic, check for multiple credential helpers with:

git config --show-origin --get-all credential.helper

Alternatively, switching the remote to SSH avoids the HTTPS OAuth/WAF flow completely.