Using a different git account

[Ishant Jindal]

Greetings,

I am new to Bitbucket. 

I have previously installed git and set it to a different email. Recently one of my clients provided me a new email address and repo access to that email. When I am cloning the repo it throws an 'invalid credentials' error. 

Things I have tried.

1) added my new email using git config user.email command.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks & Regards,

[Patrik S · Accepted solution]

Hello @Ishant Jindal and welcome to the Community!

Based on your description, I suspect you are trying to clone over HTTPS. The credentials for the git clone are different from the ones used to log in to the UI.

To clone a git repository using HTTPS you'll need to use a command as follows : 

git clone https://{username}:{app_password}@bitbucket.org/{workspace}/{repository}.git

where :

• username : it's your bitbucket account username (not email address). You can check the current username (and change if you want) by navigating to your personal bitbucket settings
• app password: a token used to authenticate git operations and API calls. If you haven't already, you can create a new app password under your account.

It's important that the credentials above are from the account where you have access to the repository. 

Could you try using those credentials for authentication and let us know how it goes? 

Thank you, @Ishant Jindal !

Patrik S

[Ishant Jindal]

Hey, the mentioned method worked just fine. Thanks for the help.

Best Regards,

Ishant