git - Visual studio 2017 with bitbucket, terminal prompts disabled

Question

The visual studio stopped sending my commits to the bitbucket and this error appears

Error encountered while cloning the remote repository: Git failed with a fatal error. HttpRequestException encountered. There was an error submitting the request. can not 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 'https: //[email protected]': terminal prompts disabled The error occurs when I try to clone my repository or commit

Answer 1

I had the same issue, I found an answer that worked for me here: https://github.com/github/VisualStudio/issues/949

Below are the steps mentioned to fix: It seems that the bundled Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows/ in VIsual Studio 2017 is not the latest release. Downloading the latest release and putting it on top of the files in Visual Studio 2017 worked for me.

1. download the zip file gcmw-v1.17.0.zip from https://github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows/releases/tag/v1.17.0
2. navigate to C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio2017EnterpriseCommon7IDECommonExtensionsMicrosoftTeamFoundationTeam ExplorerGitmingw32libexec (or wherever your 'missing' git-askpass.exe resides).
3. make a copy of the git-core folder and rename it backup or something like that
4. put the files from the zip file on top of the contents of your new git-core folder and overwrite where prompted