How to sync with the original repository in bitbucket?

Question

Although I have already checked the similar post about syncing my local files with the original repo I have this strange problem.

So, this is what I did:-

• I forked a repo from one of the existing repo in bitbucket.org, let's call it master repo which is (private repo) to my repo.

• I cloned my repo to my computer using:-

  git clone https://myself@bitbucket.org/myself/myrepo.git
  

• Now I want to see what changes has been made in the master repo so I did:-

  git remote add upstream https://masterrepo@bitbucket.org/masterrepo/master.git
  git pull upstream
  

But the problem is that git is asking for the password of masterrepo@bitbucket.org which I do not have.

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. I thought it was supposed to fetch and merge it into my current branch but it keeps asking the password for masterrepo@bitbucket.org.

I even tried entering my own password which clearly failed.

Answer 1

git is asking for the password because the URL you used for the upstream:

https://masterrepo@bitbucket.org/masterrepo/master.git

is a HTTPS URL which requires authentication.

It is not quite clear from your question, but I'm guessing that masterrepo is a public repository (if not you could not have cloned it in the first place I assume). So try using a public URL which does not require authentication, while adding the upstream remote, one of these should work:

https://bitbucket.org/masterrepo/master.git
git@bitbucket.org:masterrepo/master.git