[git] Git push: "fatal 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository - fatal Could not read from remote repository."

I know similar questions have already been asked.

But, I believe my issue is due to a mistake I have previously made and therefore is different: let me explain.

Everything was working smoothly, as I could:

• git add . all the files from my local repository.
• git commit -m "message here" to add messages to my commits.
• git push origin master to upload my files to GitHub.
• git push heroku master to upload my files to Heroku.

However, at some point, I created a new branch locally called add-calendar-model in case next steps of the app development would go south...

... which is exactly what happened.

However, despite many attempts, I did not manage to get the initial code — i.e. the code from before I created the new branch — from the master branch to my local repository.

So, I decided to manually delete all the files from my local repository and git clone my master branch from GitHub.

This way, I got all my files back, but now, I cannot push any more to the remote repository.

Any time I try to run git push origin add-calendar-model or git push origin master, I get the following error:

fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

I am not very comfortable with Git and GitHub, as you may have guessed by now, and I have to admit that I have no clue about how to fix this.

Any idea?

What fixed this for me was re-setting my origin url:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/username/example_repo.git

And then I was able to successfully git push my project. I had to do this even though when I viewed my origins with git remote -v, that the urls were same as what I re-set it as.

These two steps worked for me!

Step 1:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/username/example_repo.git

Step 2:

git push --set-upstream -f origin main

Step 3:

your username and password for github

On step 2, -f is actually required because of the rebase, quote from this post.

This is the way I updated the master branch

This kind of error occurs commonly after deleting the initial code on your project

So, go ahead, first of all, verify the actual remote version, then remove the origin add the comment, and copy the repo URL into the project files.

$ git remote -v
$ git remote rm origin
$ git commit -m "your commit"
$ git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git
$ git push -f origin master

Sometimes you don't have a local REF for pushing that branch back to the origin.
Try

git push origin master:master

This explicitly indicates which branch to push to (and from)

if you add your remote repository by using git clone then follow the steps:-

git clone <repo_url> then

git init

git add * *means add all files

git commit -m 'your commit'

git remote -v for check any branch run or not if not then nothing show then we add or fetch the repository. "fetch first". You need to run git pull origin <branch> or git pull -r origin <branch> before a next push.

then

git remote add origin <git url>
 git pull -r origin master
git push -u origin master```

A similar error appears while pulling the changes from the origin. If you are trying in Intellij from the menu options, the pull might not work directly.

Go to terminal and type this command and this should work out: git pull origin master

Make sure the config file at .git is correct...Check URL & Make sure your using the correct protocol for your keys ...ProjectWorkspace/.git/config

  ~Wrong url for git@bitbucket
[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
    url = gitbucket.org:Prezyack/project-one-hello.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

 ~Wrong URL for SSH...
[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    ignorecase = true
    precomposeunicode = true
[remote "origin"]
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
    url = https://[email protected]/emmap1/bitbucketspacestation.git
[branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master

We are looking at the URL... e.g: For bitbucket, expect [email protected] its gitbucket.org. make the necessary changes.. SAVE Try pushing again.

It works for me.

git remote add origin https://github.com/repo.git
git push origin master

add the repository URL to the origin in the local working directory

I had the same issue. When I checked my config file I noticed that 'fetch = +refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/' was on the same line as 'url = Z:/GIT/REPOS/SEL.git' as shown:

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = false
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    symlinks = false
    ignorecase = true
[remote "origin"]
    url = Z:/GIT/REPOS/SEL.git     fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master
[gui]
    wmstate = normal
    geometry = 1109x563+32+32 216 255

At first I did not think that this would have mattered but after seeing the post by Magere I moved the line and that fixed the problem:

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = false
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    symlinks = false
    ignorecase = true
[remote "origin"]
    url = Z:/GIT/REPOS/SEL.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master
[gui]
    wmstate = normal
    geometry = 1109x563+32+32 216 255

As Matt Clark stated above

However, origin might not be set, so skip the deleting step and simply attempting to add can clear this up.

git remote add origin <"clone">

Where "clone" is simply going into your GitHub repo and copying the "HTTPS clone URL" and pasting into GitBash