"Bad configuration option" on linux terminal, during bitbucket ssh connection.

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I would like to start to use bitbucket, I've made the tutorial's steps to connect to their server. link Bit something always wrong with the config file. I use ubuntu 12.10. ``` root@peter-VPCEH1M1E:/home/peter/Dropbox/C++/Qt/sql/.git# git push git@bitbucket.org:erbal/sql.git /root/.ssh/config: line 1: Bad configuration option: [core] /root/.ssh/config: line 2: Bad configuration option: repositoryformatversion /root/.ssh/config: line 3: Bad configuration option: filemode /root/.ssh/config: line 4: Bad configuration option: bare /root/.ssh/config: line 5: Bad configuration option: logallrefupdates /root/.ssh/config: line 6: Bad configuration option: ignorecase /root/.ssh/config: line 7: Bad configuration option: [remote /root/.ssh/config: line 8: Bad configuration option: fetch /root/.ssh/config: line 9: Bad configuration option: url /root/.ssh/config: line 10: Bad configuration option: [branch /root/.ssh/config: line 11: Bad configuration option: remote /root/.ssh/config: line 12: Bad…

Accepted Answer

The configuration content file in question is not the `~/.ssh/config` one.

It is the git config (which somehow got copied over the `~/.ssh/config`) :

- either the local one: `git config --local -l` (in your repo `.git/config`)

- or the global one: `git config --global -l` (in your homedir: `~/.gitconfig`)

(I will assume here that the system git config file is correct).

You need to:

- check the content of those files, looking for (for instance) incorrect eol (`
` instead of `
`).

- restore the `~/.ssh/config` with the content described in the bitbucket tutorial about multiple ssh keys.

An `~/.ssh/config` file should look like:

```
Host workdid
 HostName bitbucket.org
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/workdid
Host personalid
 HostName bitbucket.org
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/personalid
```

"Bad configuration option" on linux terminal, during bitbucket ssh connection.

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