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Cannot push to Bitbucket after installing git-lfs

After installing git lfs, git keeps asking for my password when trying to execute:

git push origin master

It's as if git was stuck in an infinite loop: No error message, nothing, but I am being prompted for my password over and over again. The repo was cloned over HTTPS.

The closest question seems to be:

Cannot push to Bitbucket via https anymore: git returns fatal error

According to the answers to that question my options are:

  • Use SSH, or
  • add my password to the URL.

(The other answers concerning the version of git don't count: I am using git 2.7.4 with git-lfs/2.1.1 (GitHub; linux amd64; go 1.8.1) so it's not that my git is too old.)

Is there any other alternative to fix this issue?

Solution

  • Yes, caching the password resolved the issue:

    git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'

    (Although I am not sure it is not a bug in git or in git-lfs.)

    I have found this answer at git lfs stuck in push from last week [FIXED], and not here on Stackoverflow, and that is why I am posting it here in a Q&A-style.