Cygwin Git hangs on entering password
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
When users enter their username and password to authenticate with Bitbucket Server, the process just seems to hang with no output:
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$ git clone ...
Cloning into ...
Password:
test123
Resolution
By default, Git is using functionality available to UNIX, but not available to Cygwin.
The solution is to install an SSH_ASKPASS compatible program for Windows and configure Git to use it.
More details: http://superuser.com/questions/158673/cygwin-git-bizarre-terminal-issue
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