Git Push ERROR Repository not found

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I am having a very strange problem with git and github  When I try and push  I am getting   git push -u origin master ERROR  Repository not found  fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly   I added the remote   git remote add origin git github com account-name repo-name git   Any ideas

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If you include your username and the repo name we can reasonably help you, at the moment we have no reason to think the repo does actually exist.

Additionally, if the repo is private and you don't have access to it, github returns "Does not exist" to avoid disclosing the existance of private repos.

EDIT: If you're not able to clone it because it's saying it doesn't exist and it's private, it's because you're not sending authentication. Ensure that your public key is added to your keyring, or use HTTP basic auth for the time being.

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I had a similar problem   The incorrect credentials were cached in OS X s key-chain   Check out  https   help github com articles updating-credentials-from-the-osx-keychain

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If you belong to a group in Github check that you have Write Access

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I can explain how i get into the similar situation  and then will list steps that i have taken to solve this issue  I am using Windows 10  git  git version 2 27 0 windows 1  I had already setup the git and was doing git push activities  Windows Credential Manager stores the username and password so you don t have to enter username and password every git remote activities  The encounter this problem  when i added another github account and used --local git settings  After few days  I encounter the Repository not found problem  upon investigation i found   Even if you remove the git details from Windows Credential Manager  it will save again the username  email details you enter   So  if you are using two git accounts  you need to use  git bash as an administrator  git config --edit --system   and remove the helper   manager   line so that it is no longer registered as a credential helper  But it will ask you login details every time you do any remote activities  How do I disable Git Credential Manager for Windows   To check remote origin  user details git config --list --show-origin

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If you clone from github using https but you are using ssh to push  you can also get this error   To correct this  open  git config and replace   url   https   github com company project git  With  url   git github com company project git  And you should be able to push with no warning

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To solve this problem  on Linux   I merely had to run this  git config --global --unset credential helper

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My code snippet   environment                       git repo    my-repo     stage   Update Helm Chart         steps           echo  Updating values xml file with latest Docker image tag           withCredentials  usernamePassword credentialsId   6bgg7dd45-c65f13-4275-a96ddehdv67gdr   usernameVariable   GIT USER   passwordVariable   GIT PASS                   sh                     git checkout   git branch                                                          git remote set-url origin  http     GIT USER    GIT PASS  git example com scm   git repo  git                  git push origin   git branch                                      My Git user name was deploy user example com so i had to first URL encode   to  40  After URL encoding  my user name became deploy user 40example com   However  i was still getting the following error   fatal  repository  http             git example com scm my-repo git   not found   After some trial and error  i found that if i don t use variable for user name and instead hard-code it  it works   git remote set-url origin  http   deploy user 40example com   GIT PASS  git example com scm   git repo  git

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I ran into the same issue and I solved it by including my username and password in the repo url   git clone https   myusername mypassword github com path to myRepo git

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you have to generate ssh key and add it in your github account in settings go to your project where you clone inside that run these command - 1-ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C  quot rajankumar148 gmail com quot  after the command you will get some options path and name can be leave empty and you can put password  2-eval   ssh-agent -s    3-ssh-add    ssh id rsa after this command you have to put same password that you created in 1st command and after that you can check your default home directory or whatever directory it is showing on the terminal  pub file open and copy the key and past in github settings new ssh

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git remote rm origin git remote add origin  lt remote url gt

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I m using Mac and I struggled to find the solution   My remote address was right and as said  it was a credentials problem   Apparently  in the past I used another Git Account on my computer and the mac s Keychain remembered the credentials of the previous account  so I really wasn t authorised to push    How to fix   Open Keychain Access on your mac  choose  All Items  category and search for git   Delete all results found   Now go to the terminal and try to push again  The terminal will ask for username and password  Enter the new relevant credentials and that s it   Hope it ll help someone  I struggled it for few hours

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If anybody faced the issue at github com check if you have accepted an invitation after repo owner allowed commits to you  Until you accept invitation repo will be invisible for you  So you ll get ERROR  Repository not found

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The following solved the problem for me   First I used this command to figure what was the github account used   ssh -T git github com   This gave me an answer like this   Hi  lt github account name gt   You ve successfully authenticated  but GitHub does not provide shell access  I just had to give the access to fix the problem    Then I understood that the Github user described in the answer  github account name  wasn t authorized on the Github repository I was trying to pull

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Create a Fork  If don t have write access to that repository  you don t need it  Create a fork by following these instructions -- it s your own clone of the repository which you can modify freely   After creating the fork  you can then clone that repo to your computer   git clone git github com  lt your-git-handle gt   lt repository gt  git    It will be cloned to your machine where you run the command     under a  lt repository gt  folder that it will create    Checkout a new branch and make changes   git checkout -b my-new-feature   To submit your changes to the original repository  you ll need to make sure that they re pushed     make changes    git commit -am  New Feature  Made a new feature   git push origin my-new-feature   To get these changes into the original repository that you forked from  you can submit a Pull Requests by following these instructions  A Pull Request basically  you request that the user with write access to a repository pull down the changes you ve made  Think of it like  I request that you pull my changes into your repo      Note  Your fork will not stay up-to-date with all of the changes going on in the original repository  though  You ll have to pull down those changes periodically -- but this is easy    After creating the fork  you can link to repo that you ve forked from so that you can pull in it s changes and keep stay current   git remote add upstream git github com  lt git-user-handle gt   lt repository gt  git   Once you ve done that  keeping in sync with the changes made on the original repo is quite easy   git checkout master            checkout your local master git pull upstream master       fetch changes from the master branch of the repo you forked from   which is linked to your fork under the alias  upstream   common naming convention  git push origin master         push the pulled changes onto your local master git checkout -b new-branch     create a new branch and start making changes

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I ran into the same issue on a MAC trying to pull from a private repo i was previously connected to  I solved it by including my username in the repo url  git remote set-url origin https    lt YOUR USER NAME HERE gt  github com  lt YOUR USER NAME HERE gt   lt REPO gt  git  Then i was able to pull from the repo  For a new repo you want to clone  git clone https    lt YOUR USER NAME HERE gt  github com  lt YOUR USER NAME HERE gt   lt REPO gt  git      It will prompt you to enter your password to that account  you re good to go afterwards

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This Solved my problem       git pull https   myusername mypassword github com path to myRepo git

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I was getting the same error  ERROR  Repository not found     fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly   and I had created the repository on Github and cloned it locally   I was able to solve by opening  git config and removing the  remote  origin   section    remote  origin         url   git github com alexagui my project git      fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin     then I ran the following  again   git remote add origin git github com alexagui my project git   git push -u origin master   and this time I was able to push to the repository

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Had similar issue  The root of the problem was that I followed some online tutorial about adding a new repository to Github    Just go to Github  create a new repo  it will ask you to add a README  don t add it  Create it  and you ll get instructions on how to push   It s similar to the next two lines   git remote add origin https   github com YOUR USER your-repo git git push -u origin master

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I had the same problem using Android Studio  I was unable to push commits because of the auth error  My working temporary solution was to use the GitHub desktop app to push my commits and it works fine

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I have the same problem   I solved prefixing my gitlab username to the gitlab com url  so like this  before   https   gitlab com my gitlab user myrepo git  and after  https   my gitlab user gitlab com my gitlab user myrepo git In this case will ask for the credentials again and it s done

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Here is how to solve my issue   check current github account ssh -T git github com   ensure the correct ssh key used with github ssh-agent -s ssh-add    ssh YOUR-GITHUB-KEY   re-add the origin git remote add origin git github com YOUR-USER YOUR-REPO GIT git push -u origin master

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remote  Repository not found  can be a frustratingly misleading error message from github when trying to push to an HTTPS remote where you don t have write permissions   Check your write permissions on the repository   Trying an SSH remote to the same repository shows a different response     git remote add ssh git github com our-organisation some-repository git    git fetch ssh From github com our-organisation some-repository    new branch         MO Adding ECS configs             - gt  ssh MO Adding ECS configs    new branch         update gems                       - gt  ssh update gems    git push ssh      ERROR  Repository not found  fatal  Could not read from remote repository   Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists     The correct access rights    Well why didn t you say so   It s worth noting at this point that while the SSH failure mode in this scenario is slightly better  I use HTTPS remotes over SSH because GitHub recommend HTTPS over SSH   I understand that GitHub uses  Not Found  where it means  Forbidden  in some circumstances to prevent inadvertently reveling the existence of a private repository       Requests that require authentication will return 404 Not Found  instead of   403 Forbidden  in some places  This is to prevent the accidental leakage of   private repositories to unauthorized users    --GitHub  This is a fairly common practice around the web  indeed it is defined      The 404  Not Found  status code indicates that the origin server did not find   a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to   disclose that one exists    --6 5 4  404 Not Found  RFC 7231 HTTP 1 1 Semantics and Content  emphasis mine   What makes no sense to me is when I am authenticated with GitHub using a credential helper and I have access to that repository  having successfully cloned and fetched it  that GitHub would choose to hide its existence from me because of missing write permissions   Checking https   github com our-organisation some-repository  using a web browser confirmed that I didn t have write permissions to the repository  Our team s GitHub administrators were able to grant my team write access in a short time and I was able to push the branch up

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You need to check your SSH access as the following    ssh -T git github com   this issue was because i don t add the person response on SSH in repository  read more about SSH link-1  link-2

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I had the same problem  with a private repo   do the following   remove the remote origin  git remote rm origin   re-add the origin but with your username and pwd with writing privileges on this pvt repo  git remote add origin  https   USERNAME PASSWORD github com username reponame git

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My solution may be useful to some of you   I got the same error after updating my macbook s OS to Yosemite  My problem got fixed by recreating my ssh key  You can do this by following step 2 of this page  https   help github com articles generating-ssh-keys

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I had this issue and realized I was using a different account from the one whose repo it was  Logging in as the original user resolved the issue

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first Create a new repository on the command line  name like  Ademo git  Create a new repository on the command line  touch README md git init git add README md git commit -m  first commit  git remote add origin https   github com your name Ademo git git push -u origin master  Push an existing repository from the command line  git remote add origin https   github com your name Ademo git git push -u origin master

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One problem  that may be obvious to some that I don t see mentioned here  could be that you have access with ssh keys  but you are trying to connect your local repo to a remote via https   If this is the case then the following commands should fix the issue for you      git remote -v origin  https   github com private-repo git  fetch  origin  https   github com private-repo git  push    git remote rm origin   git remote add origin git github com private-repo git   git remote -v origin  git github com private-repo git  fetch  origin  git github com private-repo git  push       Note that the above works assuming that          your current remote is named origin and that you do already have a   generated ssh key connected with your github account   you already have an ssh key associated with your github account  and connected locally    you have the correct permissions  read write  set on github for this repo s settings

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go to your project folder then search for the  git folder  then open the config file with notepad and check if there is your link to the github repo under   remote  origin    if it is different then the repo in your github then just edit it  or open a new repo with the name in the in config file

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Also be sure to check whether you have desktop client installed  I double checked everything  my permission  SSH  but turns out my repo listed in the client was overriding the one I was inputting via terminal

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So for me  my password had a    tick  in it and PhpStorm was removing the character before sending the git push   Lets say for this example my password is  pa  ssword   Phpstorm would output the following   https    username   password  github com  username  repo git  instead of   https    username   pa  ssword  github com  username  repo git  Changed password to something not using the   character  WORKS

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I needed to kill credential-helper processes  were multiple  and it solved the issue after providing credentials once again   killall git-credential-cache--daemon

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I was having the same issue with one of my Github Repository  Way around   Used SSH instead of HTTPS and then push pull started working fine

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If your repo was working normally before  and suddenly this error pops up  most likely the reason would be that your git is authenticated as some other user  that does not have access to the repository  So  in order to push  all you need to do is  specify your correct username and password in your git command  So  a push command for a github repo would look like   git push https   youruser password github com user reponame git   username and password needs to be url-escaped  so an   should be replaced by  40  and so on

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This can also happen because GitHub itself is down  Make sure to check status github com to see if the problem might lie on their side   On October 22nd 2018 you couldn t push to GitHub for several hours

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That s what worked for me   1  The Remotes    git remote rm origin   git remote add origin git github com  lt USER gt   lt REPO gt  git   If your SSH key is already in use on another github rep  you can generate a new one   2  Generating a new SSH key    ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C  web github com    3  Addition of the key at the SSH agent level    eval    ssh-agent -s     ssh-add    ssh id rsa github   4  Add the new key to the Github repo

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I got this error  but before was working   My problem was the missing ssh key binded with the Github account  You can check you current ssh keys with ssh-add -l   If your key is missing  you can add it with   ssh-add    ssh your key

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If you use private repository check you connection user  it must have permission for use repository

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Changing the content of the  git config file helps as Alex said above  I experienced the same problem and I think it was because I changed my Github username  The local files could not be updated with the changes  So perhaps anytime you change your username you might consider running   git remote add origin your ssh link from github  I hope this helps

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I had the same problem  My issue was misunderstanding that I had to first create the empty repo on github before pushing to it  Doh  Including this here for anyone else who doesn t realize

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The Problem  Github is not familiar with your repository from some reason   The Error  prompted in git cli like the following      remote  Repository not found  fatal  repository      https   github com MyOrganization projectName git     not found   The Solution   2 Options   Github might not familiar with your credentials  - The first Option is to clone the project with the right credentials user password in case you forgot this Or generate ssh token and adjust this key in your Github  aka git push https    lt userName gt   lt password gt  github com Company repositoryName git Repo Permissions Issue with some users - In my Use case  I solved this issue when I realized I don t have the right collaborator permissions on Github in my private repo  Users could clone the project but not perform any actions on origin  In order to solve this       Go to Repository on Github -  Settings -  Collaborators  amp  Teams -  Add   Member Maintainer your users -  Now they got the permission to commit   and push

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I am having the same problem and tried many ways but at last  I have got to know that I don t have sufficient permissions to push or pull on this repo and one more way to check if you are having the permissions or not is you were not able to see settings option in that repo and if you were having permissions then you will be able to see settings option  Thanks  this is what I observed

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Have experienced the same problem  Everything was working fine for years and then suddenly this error   The problem turns out was that I added a deploy key for another repo to my SSH agent before my user s github SSH key  which I always used to access the repo in question   SSH agent tried the deploy key for another repo first  and GitHub for some totally unexplainable reason was saying  ERROR  Repository not found    Once I ve removed the deploy key from SSH agent  everything was back to normal

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Normally it happens because the project is private and you have not rights to write it  I had the same  quot problem quot  a few times  and it was for that reason  If the project it is yours  just create a private and a public key following this link  https   docs github com en github authenticating-to-github generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent and add them to the  quot SSH and Key quot  section on gitHub  then you will be able to push to the repo  In the other hand if the project it is not your  ask the owner to give you the rights for it

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Just use the SSH remote url instead of the HTTPS

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I faced same error after updating my ubuntu to next version  I just deleted my sshkey on github account and then re added an sshkey to that account

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I had the same problem  Try the following   1  Modifying the Keychain Access in Mac for git credentials solved the problem for me   2  Resetting origin url  git remote rm origin git remote add origin git github com account-name repo-name git

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Check to see if you have read-write access   The Git error message is misleading  I had a similar issue  I had been added to an existing project  I cloned it and committed a local change  I went to push and got the ERROR  Repository not found  error message   The person who added me to the project gave me read-only access to the repository  A change by them and I was able to push

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If you use Git on Windows  try to clear your credentials   Locate  quot credential manager quot   should be in your Control Panel  Remove all credentials related to GitHub

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I was getting the same error coz I change my github user name  then I do this   git remote -v   then   git remote set-url newname newurl  git push -u origin master   this time I was able to push to the repository  I hope this helps

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