WHY?: repository access denied. access via a deployment key is read-only.

[cosmicelf]

I am trying to commit my new application to the repository for the first time.   Thought I followed the directions to a tee however I am getting the error in the subject line no matter what I try.

What is the trick to getting the first commit though?   Did I not set up my key properly?   It seems to tell me that keys are for read only access only but how does one commit with only read access?

[Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority]

Deployment keys are to deploy. You need to install an ssh key, or push via HTTP.

[cosmicelf]

I was looking for a place I could do that but was finding it not too obvious.   "Access Keys" was the only setting I could find.

[Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority]

Go through the instructions at https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/set-up-ssh-for-git-728138079.html 

[cosmicelf]

that link is broken

[cosmicelf]

oops.  it was broken when i clicked on it for some reason but a copy and paste found it

[Boris Berenberg - Atlas Authority]

Hmm weird, trying again https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/set-up-ssh-for-git-728138079.html If it doesn't work, try copy pasting it in

[cosmicelf]

that got it!   i just didn't see the other place to add keys before.  it's going now.   thanks!

[Greg Mercer]

Here is what I was struggling with and the answer I discovered.

I was trying to run pipeline in one repo 'A', and then in the last step have it git clone repo 'B' which has another pipeline, make a change to a file in repo 'B', commit that change and push up to repo 'B', and then trigger the pipeline in repo 'B' to run a custom step.

I had the code in place to trigger the run of pipeline in 'B' using a call to curl. That call looks like this:

 curl -X POST -is -u <username-goes-here>:<app-password-goes-here> \
 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/<repo-project-name-goes-here>/<repo-b-name-goes-here>/pipelines/ \
 -d '
 {
 "target": {
 "ref_type": "branch", 
 "type": "pipeline_ref_target", 
 "ref_name": "master",
 "selector": {
 "type":"custom",
 "pattern":"<custom-step-name-goes-here>"
 }
 }
 }'

The app-password is a key point here. You need to get this from a settings page under your profile.

https://bitbucket.org/account/user/<username-goes-here>/app-passwords

The point that I struggled with is getting the git commit and git push to work.

The answer: I found that I had to add a ssh key under my profile:
https://bitbucket.org/account/user/<username-goes-here>/ssh-keys/

Then importantly... when I did the git clone I had to use https instead of ssh. So the clone looks like this:

git clone https://<username-goes-here>:<app-password-here>@bitbucket.org/<repo-project-name-goes-here>/<repo-b-name-goes-here>.git

Add that did the trick. Wee... Hopes this helps other.

Ps. The reason I do this git clone, commit and push is to pass arg values to the triggered pipeline. Which BTW seems to be the only way I could find to be able to run a pipeline with args.