Cloning Bitbucket server repo with access tokens

Question

I am trying to clone a bitbucket server repo (self-hosted) using access-token however I could not find any documentation on Bitbucket server API. My clone url is ssh based.

Or is there a way to use REST API curl command to clone bitbucket server repos?

Answer 1

The official documentation says that you should:

git clone https://x-token-auth:$ACCESS_TOKEN@yourbitbucketserver/...

In my experiments with a BitBucket 6.1 server, this does not work and gives HTTP 401 instead. Using ssh with access tokens seems to be entirely unsupported.

What did work was:

git -c "http.extraHeader=Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" clone https://yourbitbucketserver/...