Git hangs indefinitely - broke with osx credential helper I think

Question

I got tired of typing my password for my bitbucket repo so I looked up a way to use ssh keys but happened upon the osx credential keychain. I thought I had installed it all

Answer 1

To fix this I reinstalled git from http://git-scm.com/download/mac and then added /usr/local/git/bin to the top of the file /etc/paths