fatal origin does not appear to be a git repository

Question

I ve a repository moodle on my Github account which I forked from the official repository   I then cloned it on my local machine  It worked fine  I created several branches  under the master branch   I made several commits and it worked fine    I don t know how I m getting the following error when I do   git push origin master  fatal   origin  does not appear to be a git repository fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly   How do I resolve the error without effecting my repository on Github   I m using Ubuntu 12 10  The contents of my  git config after doing cat   git rev-parse --show-toplevel   git config gives    core      repositoryformatversion   0     filemode   true     bare   false     logallrefupdates   true  branch  master    branch  MOODLE 23 STABLE    branch  MOODLE 24 STABLE    remote  upstream       url   git   git moodle org moodle git     fetch    refs heads   refs remotes upstream

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HOME  gitconfig is your global config for git  There are three levels of config files    cat   git rev-parse --show-toplevel   git config    mentioned by bereal  is your local config  local to the repo you have cloned   you can also type from within your repo   git remote -v   And see if there is any remote named  origin  listed in it   If not  if that remote  which is created by default when cloning a repo  is missing  you can add it again   git remote add origin url to your fork     The OP mentions      Doing git remote -v gives     upstream git   git moodle org moodle git  fetch   upstream git   git moodle org moodle git  push    So  origin  is missing  the reference to your fork  See  What is the difference between origin and upstream in github

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This does not answer your question  but I faced a similar error message but due to a different reason  Allow me to make my post for the sake of information collection   I have a git repo on a network drive  Let s call this network drive RAID  I cloned this repo on my local machine  LOCAL  and on my number crunching cluster  CRUNCHER   For convenience I mounted the user directory of my account on CRUNCHER on my local machine  So  I can manipulate files on CRUNCHER without the need to do the work in an SSH terminal   Today  I was modifying files in the repo on CRUNCHER via my local machine  At some point I decided to commit the files  so a did a commit  Adding the modified files and doing the commit worked as I expected  but when I called git push I got an error message similar to the one posted in the question   The reason was  that I called push from within the repo on CRUNCHER on LOCAL  So  all paths in the config file were plain wrong   When I realized my fault  I logged onto CRUNCHER via Terminal and was able to push the commit   Feel free to comment if my explanation can t be understood  or you find my post superfluous

User · Answer

Try to create remote origin first  maybe is missing because you change name of the remote repo  git remote add origin URL TO YOUR REPO

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It is possible the other branch you try to pull from is out of synch  so before adding and removing remote try to  if you are trying to pull from master    git pull origin master   for me that simple call solved those error messages     fatal   master  does not appear to be a git repository fatal  Could not read from remote repository

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I had the same error on git pull origin branchname when setting the remote origin as path fs and not ssh in  git config   fatal    path to repo git  does not appear to be a git repository  fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly   It was like so  this only works for users on same server of git that have access to git    url   file    path to repo git    Fixed it like so  this works on all users that have access to git user  ssh authorizes keys or password     url   git domain com path to repo git   the reason I had it as a directory path was because the git files are on the same server

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I faced the same problem when I renamed my repository on GitHub  I tried to push at which point I got the error  fatal   origin  does not appear to be a git repository fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly   I had to change the URL using  git remote set-url origin ssh   git github com username newRepoName git   After this all commands started working fine  You can check the change by using   git remote -v   In my case after successfull change it showed correct renamed repo in URL   aniket alok Android   git remote -v origin  ssh   git github com aniket91 TicTacToe git  fetch  origin  ssh   git github com aniket91 TicTacToe git  push

[git] fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository

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