I have an error when I try to push anything to my bitbucket repository via Git extension for visual studio:
Error encountered while pushing branch to the remote repository: Git failed with a fatal error.
HttpRequestException encountered.
An error occurred while sending the request.
cannot spawn /C/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Community/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/TeamFoundation/Team Explorer/Git/mingw32/libexec/git-core/git-askpass.exe: No such file or directory
could not read Password for ......
What could be the issue here?
It seems to affect some Visual Studio users since a few hours ago, even with no changes taken place in the environment prior to that. Something apparently went wrong in Git integration with Visual Studio.
There is currently a workaround, where you set the password in the remotes settings of the repository, as shown here, but note that it is insecure as it requires storing the password in plain text.
Another workaround is to work with Git using command line.
A third workaround, which I also find the best one, is to configure SSH key authentication. As of now, it seems to work with Visual Studio 2017 without any issues. This is the solution I chose.