Unable to Git-push master to Github - origin does not appear to be a git repository permission denied

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This question is related to my problem in understanding rebase  branch and merge  and to the problem     How can you commit to your github account as you have a teamMate in your remote list    I found out that other people have had the same problem  The problem seems to be related to  etc xinet d    Problem  unable to push my local branch to my master branch at Github  I run  git push origin master   I get   fatal   origin  does not appear to be a git repository fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly   The error message suggests me that the branch  origin  is not in my local git repository  This way  Git stops connecting to Github   This is strange  since I have not removed the branch  origin    My git tree is    dev   master   ticgit   remotes Math Math   remotes Math master   remotes origin master   remotes Masi master   How can you push your local branch to Github  while you have a teamMate s branch in your local Git     VonC s answer solves the main problem  I put a passphares to my ssh keys   I run    git push github master        I get  Permission denied  publickey   fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly   It seems that I need to give the passphrase for Git somehow   How can you make Github ask for your passphrase rather than relying on the ssh key

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I think that s another case of git error messages being misleading   Usually when I ve seen that error it s due to ssh problems   Did you add your public ssh key to your github account   Edit  Also  the xinet d forum post is referring to running the git-daemon as a service so that people could pull from your system   It s not necessary to run git-daemon to push to github

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I had this problem and tried various solutions to solve it including many of those listed above  config file  debug ssh etc   In the end  I resolved it by including the -u switch in the git push  per the github instructions when creating a new repository onsite - Github new Repository

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VonC s answer is best  but the part that worked for me was super simple and is kind of buried among a lot of other possible answers  If you are like me  you ran into this issue while running a  getting started with rails  tutorial and you had NOT setup your public private SSH keys    If so  try this       gt cd    ssh   gt ls If the output of ls is known hosts and nothing else  visit  http   help github com mac-key-setup  and start following the instructions from the  Generating a key  section and down     After running those instructions  my  git push origin master  command worked

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They key thing to remember is  origin  is not the value you may need to be using    it worked for me when I replaced  origin  with repo s name

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I have the same problem and i think the firewall is blocking the git protocol   So in the end I have to resort to using https    to fetch and push  However this will always prompt the user to enter the password     here is the example what working for me  just to share with those cant use git    protocol       git fetch https    user-name  github com  user-name   project  git   if the above works  you can remove the origin and replace with    git remote rm origin   git remote add origin https    user-name  github com  user-name   project  git

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This is a problem with your remote  When you do git push origin master  origin is the remote and master is the branch you re pushing   When you do this   git remote   I bet the list does not include origin  To re-add the origin remote    git remote add origin git github com your github username your github app git   Or  if it exists but is formatted incorrectly   git remote rm origin git remote add origin git github com your github username your github app git

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What does   git config --get-regexp    remote branch      returns  executed within your git repository    Origin is just a default naming convention for referring to a remote Git repository  If it does not refer to GitHub  but rather a path to your teammate repository  path which may no longer be valid or available   just add another origin  like in this Bloggitation entry   git remote add origin2 git github com myLogin myProject git   git push origin2 master   I would actually use the name  github  rather than  origin  or  origin2     Permission denied  publickey   fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly  Check if your gitHub identity is correctly declared in your local Git repository  as mentioned in the GitHub Help guide   both user name and github name -- and github token  Then  stonean blog suggests  as does Marcio Garcia     cd    ssh   ssh-add id rsa  Aral Balkan adds  create a config file  The solution was to create a config file under    ssh  as outlined at the bottom of the OS X section of this page  Here s the file I added  as per the instructions on the page  and my pushes started working again   Host github com User git Port 22 Hostname github com IdentityFile    ssh id rsa TCPKeepAlive yes IdentitiesOnly yes  You can also post the result of ssh -v git github com  to have more information as to why GitHub ssh connection rejects you  Check also you did enter correctly your public key  it needs to end with        Do not paste your private key  but your public one   A public key would look something like  ssh-rsa AAAAB3 lt big string here gt    tek    gmail com    Note  did you use a passphrase for your ssh keys   It would be easier without a passphrase  Check also the url used when pushing  git github com      not git   github com      Check that you do have a SSH Agent to use and cache your key  Try this     ssh -i path to public key git github com  If that works  then it means your key is not being sent to GitHub by your ssh client

User · Answer

I got the same problem and I just added the content of    ssh id rsa pub to my account in GitHub  After that just try again git push origin master  it should work

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One possibility that the above answers don t address is that you may not have an ssh access from your shell  That is  you may be in a network  some college networks do this  where ssh service is blocked In that case you will not only be able to get github services but also any other ssh services  You can test if this is the problem by trying to use any other ssh service This was the case with me

[git] Unable to Git-push master to Github - 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository / permission denied

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