git with IntelliJ IDEA Could not read from remote repository

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Since a few weeks  I m not able to pull or push from or to the remote repository  I thought it happend when upgrading to IntelliJ IDEA 14  but I can reproduce the problem with IDEA 13 1 5 as well   The tooltip says  Fetch failed fatal  Could not read from remote repository    and the exception in the Version Control tab reads  14 02 37 737  cd C  dev project 14 02 37 737  git -c core quotepath false fetch origin --progress --prune java io IOException  Padding in RSA public key      at com trilead ssh2 signature RSASHA1Verify decodeSSHRSAPublicKey RSASHA1Verify java 37      at com trilead ssh2 KnownHosts addHostkey KnownHosts java 98      at com trilead ssh2 KnownHosts initialize KnownHosts java 414      at com trilead ssh2 KnownHosts initialize KnownHosts java 440      at com trilead ssh2 KnownHosts addHostkeys KnownHosts java 137      at org jetbrains git4idea ssh SSHMain configureKnownHosts SSHMain java 462      at org jetbrains git4idea ssh SSHMain start SSHMain java 155      at org jetbrains git4idea ssh SSHMain main SSHMain java 137  fatal  Could not read from remote repository  Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists    Using the built-in terminal of IntelliJ  executing git -c core quotepath false fetch origin --progress --prune  it works just as it should   According to the stacktrace  there seems to be a problem with my KnownHosts  so I deleted our git server from    ssh known hosts  hoping IntelliJ would insert it again  But the problem still appears when updating via the UI  and there is no new entry written in known hosts  thinking about some caching of the file  I restarted IntelliJ  without success   When doing another git fetch from the terminal  now I m getting asked if I want to permanently add the server  After that  it has been written to known hosts again  but IntelliJ still won t let me update my project   I haven t found anything about this behavior online  so I guess it s not a known bug with the new IntelliJ version  Nevertheless  I updated to 14 0 2  but the problem still exists   IntelliJ is configured to use the built-in SSH executable   Does anybody have a clue what could be the problem here

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I had this issue with WebStorm recently (February/2018) and none of the (then) previous solutions worked for me. After spending some hours on troubleshooting and researching, I installed the 2018 EAP version and now it works!

A new issue reported on December/2017 on IntelliJ Idea > VCS/Git subsystem which was fixed in build 181.2445 (or any latest build after 31/Jan/2018).

See also the post Update-ssh-key-to-use-new-passphrase

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Go to Settings- Git- Select Native in SSH executable dropdown   If it is not selected  Copy HTTPS link from your Github repository  Go to VCS- Git- Remotes   Edit the origin and Paste HTTPS link in the URL field  Press Ctrl Shift k and push the project to repository  It works

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You need to Generate a new SSH key and add it to your ssh-agent  For That you should follow this link   After you create the public key and add it to your github account  you should use Built-in  not Native  option under Setting-  Version Control -  Git -  SSH executable in your Intellij Idea

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The problem is solved in my pc  settings-- Version Control-- Git  and then  In the SSH executable drop-down  select built-in option    and install git older version something like 2 14 2  Its works good

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Go to Preferences   Version Control   Git  Make sure SSH executable is set to    Native      If it s already so  switch it to    Built-in     apply it  and then again switch back to    Native        If this doesn t solve your issue  I would suggest to download a Git client such as GitHub client  free desktop app  and try to sync your project through the app  Then go back to IntelliJ and check if it works

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IntelliJ s built-in SSH client seems to hash its known hosts  but the one I had had its host names in clear text   When I deleted the file and let IntelliJ create a new one  with only my  hashed  GitLab server and nothing else  it worked   It s also not possible to mix it - keep some unhashed entries together with hashed entries for IntelliJ  So  you have to configure your other SSH clients to use hashed hosts

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If all else fails just go to your terminal and type from your folder   git push origin master   That s the way the Gods originally wanted it to be

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I tried all solutions above  Native  changing url of VCS repository  updating Git  updating IDEA  invalidating Caches   but nothing helped me  Finally I found solution that works for me    SOLUTION  I closed Idea and replaced content of file    IntelliJIdea20xx x config options git xml with this    lt application gt     lt component name  Git Application Settings  gt       lt option name  SSH EXECUTABLE  value  IDEA SSH    gt     lt  component gt   lt  application gt    Then I started IDEA  try to checkout SSH GIT repository and it works and existing projects works as well  Interesting fact is that when I switch to NATIVE in Idea Settings  repository not working

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Not a solution   workaround but perhaps an answer to the question  what could be the problem    Gitlab and the  jetbrains built in ssh library  do not work well together  The library wants to use SHA1 based key exchange algorithm where gitlab  default  only allows SHA2 based key exchange algorithm s    This was reported for at least TeamCity  https   youtrack jetbrains com issue TW-47704     The fact that it also might be the cause for your pull push problem in IntelliJ  and also my push-problem in PhpStorm is based on the ASSUMPTION jetbrains use the same  built in library  for all their software

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I started getting Could not read from remote repository error  recently when working with my github repository  My specs    IntelliJ IDEA 2017 3 4  Ultimate Edition  Settings -  Version Control -  Git -  SSH executable -  Built-In Fedora Linux      Of course those problems occurred only when trying to push pull fetch etc  from IDE - executing same commands from command line worked like a charm   Solution that worked for me  I didn t want to switch from Built-In SSH executable to Native  mostly because my native SSH client asks me for the password anytime I try to sync with remote repository    I solved this problem by switching from SSH remote URL to HTTPS URL  According to this GitHub help page - it is recommended to use HTTPS URL instead of SSH one   Changing remote URL from SSH to HTTPS  In IntelliJ IDEA go to VCS -  Git -  Remotes     select row containing  origin  and click on edit button  If you host your repository on GitHub  replace your SSH URL from   git github com USERNAME REPOSITORY git   to   https   github com USERNAME REPOSITORY git   You can also get your HTTPS URL from your GitHub repository home page - click on  Clone or download  button and click on  Use HTTPS  link to display your repository s HTTPS URL     UPDATE 2018-03-13  JetBrains just released IntelliJ IDEA 2017 3 5 that includes fix for SSH access to GitHub - https   blog jetbrains com idea 2018 03 intellij-idea-2017-3-5-fix-for-ssh-access-to-github

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I ve resolved this by adding my SSH private key to the ssh-agent in the command     ssh-add -K    ssh id rsa   And setting Settings -- gt  Version Control -- gt  Git  and then  in the SSH executable dropdown  choose Native

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I had this problem with a fork from some online course  I cloned my fork and ran into a permissions error  I couldn t understand why it was insisting I was my user from my other company  But as the previous commenter mentioned I had the Clone git repositories using ssh setting checked and I had forgotten to add an ssh key to my new account  So I did and then still couldn t push because I got THIS error  The way I solved it was to push using the Github Desktop client   Takeaways    When you open a new GitHub account make sure to add an ssh key to it Use different ssh keys for different accounts In general I run into some GitHub issue on IntelliJ at least once or twice for every project  Make sure you have a copy of GitHub desktop and load your projects into it  It can and will help you with lots of problems you may run into with Intellij - not just this one  It s actually a really nice GUI client and free  It probably makes sense to do what  yabin suggests and use the native client on a Mac

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I changed git path and it worked

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I Solved the issue simply by ensuring that I had the correct git SSH url without any trailing spaces   git github com USERNAME REPOSITORY git

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For me the solution was  Settings   Version Control   Git   Use Credential helper

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Don t forget to contact your system administrator    Because in my case I had every thing rightly configured SSH also added  but I got the same error     repository access denied  fatal  Could not read from remote   repository    the reason was I only had read access to that repository  Therefore with out wasting your valuable time please check that as the first thing   Thank you

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When adding the remote URL change it from this  https   username bitbucket org usernameowner project-name git  to this  https   bitbucket org usernameowner project-name git

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Ensure that you ve changed the link to the git repository to the HTTPS option after you ve selected  Native  in IntelliJ settings if SSH doesn t work

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Nothing helped me  Then I saw that the name of the project on the computer is different from the name on the git repository   So I solved the problem

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This fixed it for me  I am using SSH  not HTTPS  and the native git  not the built-in  on MacOS High Sierra  10 13 5  IntelliJ IDEA 2018 4

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Adding this answer since none of the answers worked for me    I had certificates issue - so following command did the trick    git config --global http sslVerify false  taken from  https   confluence atlassian com fishkb unable-to-clone-git-repository-due-to-self-signed-certificate-376838977 html

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I tried Native option but does not work for me  finally regenerate ssh key in old way and add -m option in ssh-keygen command  also IDEA works with build-in option as fine   ssh-keygen -m PEM -t rsa -b 4096 -C  email

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I solved this issue by re-adding remote repository  VCS -  Git -  Remotes

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I solved this issue by removing the password for the ssh key in PuTTY

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this helped me to fix current issue  If you re using macOS Sierra 10 12 2 or later  you will need to modify your    ssh config file to automatically load keys into the ssh-agent and store passphrases in your keychain   Host    AddKeysToAgent yes  UseKeychain yes  IdentityFile    ssh id rsa   source

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We ve recently updated from IntelliJ 12 to IntelliJ 14 Ultimate and we ve encountered this problem too  Our solution was to disable the proxy in the settings  We also stopped remembering the passwords once  but might not sure if that helps  Proxy settings are under File-Settings-Apearance  amp  Behavior-System settings-HTTP Proxy

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The only thing that helped in my case  switch SSH-executabe did not work  was to deactivate the git and git-flow plugin  restart intellij and reactivate those plugins again

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Settings -- gt  Version Control -- gt  Git  and then  in the SSH executable dropdown  choose Native    If this doesn t help  ensure that your native ssh and git clients are of a sufficiently recent version

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in pyCharm   file      v-- gt settings                  v-- gt Version Control                                     v-- gt Git   Here change SSH executable from Built-in into Native  then press apply and close

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I had the same problem  Was using bitbucket and had trouble in pulling updating the repository on Intellij  Tried changing to native and back to built in  but it was not working  Then realized that I had generated the ssh key with a passphrase    I regenerated the key without the passphrase and then added it to the bitbucket  It worked

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Check Idea proxy settings if you are trying to connect to cloud services like github or bitbucket  This can be done by looking for plugins to install or by checking for software updates in the help menu  If the internet proxy settings are not correct add valid entries or set it to auto

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what  yabin ya says is a cool solution  just remind you that  if u still get the same problem go to Settings-Version Control-GitHub and uncheck the Clone git repositories using ssh

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