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Can't push to Heroku using SourceTree

bucketfist

Hi, I can push to Heroku using the command "git push heroku master", but when I open the push dialog within sourcetree it says: "Password Required for user git on host heroku.com".

I enter the password and after a few seconds the dialog comes up again. So i enter the password again. After a few seconds the dialog comes up again. This loop goes on forever until I click cancel, and then I'm back where I started.

As it stands right now I'm stuck using the command line to push to heroku. Any help is appreciated.

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stevestreeting

That's odd - basically SourceTree puts that prompt up only when it gets an authentication error from the remote. SourceTree is trying to list the remote branches when it enters the dialog, using 'git remote show', compared to the actual push which is done via 'git push' as you would do from the command line. SourceTree is just trying to give you all the information available.

The 'git remote show' command will require authentication too, which is why you get the prompt the first time. However, if that authentication succeeded, you should not see it again. Are you saying you don't see the authentication dialog anymore now? It's odd because that means authentication must now be working on the 'git remote show' command, yet this is no different to the initial time you used it.

I don't have a Heroku account myself to test this with, but I know other people who do and this hasn't come up before. I wonder whether you encountered a temporary error on the server side of Heroku which was causing SourceTree to keep prompting you, which has now been resolved.

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bucketfist

I think there is some sort of bug here, because I realize that after I hit cancel (and after enough time has passed) I can go ahead and click the checkboxes on the first row of the "branches to push" grid, and subsequently click Ok to push. That worked fine and now it seems that the "password required" dialog no longer appears. The confusing repeating dialog seems to be nothing more than just a simple infinite loop in the wrong place. hehe

stevestreeting

bucketfist

I'm confused. It turns out that I am getting the dialog again, but all I have to do is hit cancel, and wait a second. Then I check the checkboxes for the master branch (which is the only branch) and click ok. The push succeeds. I tried git remote show heroku from the command line which responded as expected without prompting for a password. Then I went back to sourcetree and I am no longer getting the dialogue. (I assume that after I reboot or something the dialog will begin to reappear again.) So yeah, this is weird. Any ideas?

stevestreeting

Very odd. Can you tell me what the URL is that you're using? You can replace bits with placeholders if you don't want to expose the actual URL, but I'm interested in the form of it, especially whether it's ssh or https, and whether the username is included in it. If the username is not included, it may help to add it (e.g. https://username@hostname.com/repo), especially if you use more than one user on the same host, because then it's unambiguous when it comes to look up the password in your keychain.
If you're not using ssh keys to authenticate, please also take a look in Keychain Access to make sure SourceTree has been able to create an entry there for your URL (this is how it remembers the password).

bucketfist

It's ssh. The format is as follows:

git@heroku.com:radiant-day-4808.git

To my knowledge this is the only address format one can use to push to Heroku. See the section "Git Remotes and Heroku" herehttp://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git

I only have one heroku username, so as far as I know there is no ambiguity. I am using ssh keys to authenticate but I looked in Keychain access just out of curiousity and I see the entry for bitbucket (because I am also pushing to a repo there via https) and as expected there was no entry for heroku.

Also, I'm not sure if it makes a difference or not, but following the instructions at http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/keys I ran "heroku keys" and I see that heroku shows me having two keys. One is from my old laptop which I no longer use. The other one is the one that resides in my ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub file, which I believe was created automatically by heroku (because up until that point I hadn't been using ssh on the new laptop). If you want I can delete the unused key from heroku's records to see if that helps.

yang yang_k55r4g

install Heroku CLI
restart SourceTree
open SourceTree Terminal `$ heroku login`

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