my "username" is very irksome and has to be input without my seeing it

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This is my first post.  I'm finding trouble understanding the Atlassian/Bitbucket thing. I saw this:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/How-to-change-username/qaq-p/4277

I'm on a Windows 10 machine using cygwin.  I have managed to set up a repo and to push to it... but I have to enter my full email each time where it says "username"... *and* the keystrokes are not shown: very irksome.

I think I understand that my Atlassian/Bitbucket username is not the same as my git username (i.e. the email address)... is that right?

As a total Bitbucket newb, would I be right in thinking that the site's user interface has changed quite a bit over recent years? The posts in the above thread don't seem to correspond much to what I see when I look at my "overview" or "repositories" pages...

Maybe I can't change the username (email address) I have to use for push to something much shorter... but is there any way to make this business less irksome?  E.g. make the keystrokes show...?

Ana Retamal · Answer

Hi Mike! I believe you, weird things happen sometimes in tech :)  I'm so glad this is working for you now!

I'm not clear about something: is it Bitbucket which is deciding to not show the keystrokes in the terminal (cygwin this is) as you type the username... or is this an inherent part of git functionality?

Bitbucket does not interfere with the terminal at all nad neither does Git, that's just the way the terminal works. In Unix systems it's common not to show anything at all for security reasons. To back up my answer, I'll link Why is the password I entered not visible?

I don't really know what SourceTree might be...

Oh! You posted this question in the Sourcetree product, so I assumed this was the main founder of your concerns. Sourcetree is a visual interface for Git. You can find more about it at sourcetreeapp.com (this is only available for Mac and Windows, though).

I'm at the stage of still trying to figure out what the relationship is between Atlassian and Bitbucket.

Atlassian is the name of our company and we own a bunch of products made to empower team collaboration, Bitbucket being one of them. Jira, Confluence and Sourcetree are some of our other software. We recently launched Atlassian accounts too, this is a SSO service to allow you to sign into our different products using the same set of credentials.

A "Dummies Guide to Atlassian/Bitbucket/SourceTree" would be useful to me!

We don't have a "Dummies" guide, but we do have a lot of online resources! To learn more about us and our products, you could start having a look at our blog, some of our tutorials and our knowledge base. This Community is also a great resource of information, as a lot of our users share their best practices and tips here.

I hope you find this useful, Mike!

Have a good day,

Ana

unknown · Answer

Hi,

Thanks again.

Mystified! It works now.  You're going to think I'm crazy, and this may well be true, but yesterday going  push with username "mrodent" and with the correct password didn't work ... and going push "mrodent33@yahoo.co.uk" with that password did.

Today I just pushed using "mrodent"... and success!

I'm not clear about something: is it Bitbucket which is deciding to not show the keystrokes in the terminal (cygwin this is) as you type the username... or is this an inherent part of git functionality?  As I said yesterday, there is no real point in hiding the username, as it's immediately repeated.

As to not asking for credentials... I had a look at your link. I don't really know what SourceTree might be... I'm at the stage of still trying to figure out what the relationship is between Atlassian and Bitbucket.  Do I need to set up more usernames and passwords I wonder?  I'll have a look again tomorrow.

A "Dummies Guide to Atlassian/Bitbucket/SourceTree" would be useful to me!

Mike

Ana Retamal · Answer

Hi, I've checked our system and I can confirm that 'mrodent33@yahoo.co.uk' is the email address associated to your Bitbucket account, but it's not the username, the username is 'mrodent'. Can you try entering that username and see if you can push? If you get any error, can you send us the screenshot?

Regarding the key strokes, are you pushing using Sourcetree or directly in the terminal? In the terminal it's common that keystrokes are not shown, but that shouldn't be the case for Sourcetree.

Actually, if the account was correctly configured it shouldn't be asking you for the credentials every time you push. Can you confirm if you've followed the steps at Connect your Bitbucket account?

Let us know!

Ana