Unable to clone a repository in BitBucket using Visual Studio Professional 2017

[Mona Agarwal]

While trying to clone/push/pull a repository's branch from BitBucket using Visual Studio getting below error-

"Git failed with a fatal error.
HttpRequestException encountered.
An error occurred while sending the request.
cannot spawn /C/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core/git-askpass.exe: No error
could not read Password for 'https://**********@bitbucket.org': terminal prompts disabled"

[********** is my user name]

My Git version is:- 2.17.1.windows.2

Please suggest.

[Ana Retamal]

Hi Mona, welcome to the Community!

First, we'll need to find out where this error is coming from.

• Have you tried cloning/pushing/pulling the repository using the command line directly? Do you get any error?
• If you do, can you send us a screenshot of the error message you get?
• If you don't, looks like this could be an issue with Visual Studio. Can you double check that the credentials it's offering are the right ones?

Let us know!

Ana

[Mona Agarwal]

Hi Ana,

Thank you for the response. Using command line I was able to push/pull. But I needed to provide BitBucket credential for each pull/push request. So I just uninstalled Visual Studio and reinstalled it. Now it's working fine.

Thank You.

[Jason Feyers]

Looks like this is a trending issue: you might be able to find an fix here: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/16892/cannot-fetch-or-push-using-visual-studio