Git Clone - Repository not found

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git clone  lt url gt    gives the message fatal  repository  url  not found  I tried the options in the link  but it didn t work

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In my case  repository is private I can t access it directly  On ly way to use Github Desktop app to fetch this repo

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As mentioned by others the error may occur if the url is wrong   However  the error may also occur if the repo is a private repo and you do not have access or wrong credentials   Instead of  git clone https   github com NAME repo git   try  git clone https   username password github com NAME repo git     You can also use  git clone https   username github com NAME repo git   and git will prompt for the password  thanks to leanne for providing this hint in the comments

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For me the problems occurs because I have my old username password settings saved for gitlab  so that I need to remove those credentials  I run the following command on my mac  sudo su git config --system --unset credential helper  and do the clone again  enter the username and password  And everything is fine

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You may need to create an empty file named git-daemon-export-ok within the repository directory

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You should check if you have any other github account marked as  quot default quot   When trying to clone a new repo  the client  in my case BitBucket  will try to get the credentials that you have set  quot as default quot   Just mark your new credentials  quot as default quot  and it will allow you to clone the repo  it worked for me

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I had the same problem  Repository not found  due to the fact that initially I logged in with an incorrect GitHub account  To fix it        Open Control Panel from the Start menu  Select User Accounts  Select  Manage your credentials  in the left hand menu  Delete any credentials related to Git or GitHub

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git clone https    lt USERNAME gt  github com  lt REPONAME gt  repo git  This works fine  Password need to provide

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Another reason for this error  if you are on github  and trying to use deploy keys for multiple repos  you will find this does not work  In that case you need to create a machine user  however if you don t and you try to clone any repo besides the one with the deploy key  you will get this error

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Authentication issue   I use TortoiseGit GUI tool  I need to tell tortoise the username and password so that it can access to work with Git GitHub Gitlab code base  To tell it  rt click inside any folder to get TortoiseGit menu   Here TortoseGit   Settings Window   Select Credentials in left nav tree  Enter  URL Git url Helper  Select windows if your windows credentials are same as the ones for Git  or  manager  if they are different userName  Git User Name Save this settings ans try again  You will be prompted for password and then it worked

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If you are on Windows  the repository is private  and different or not longer correct credentials were saved once  you won t have access to the repo  You will get the not found error without hinting in the failed-credential-direction  In order to reset the credentials on Windows  open Control Panel  Win r control   select User Accounts and Credentials Manager  Locate the git account in Windows credentials  not Web credentials   and erase this entry    After that  cloning will pop up a login dialogue and you will be able to set these again   Tested this with git-bash as shell in VSCode

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For me   git clone https   username github com name repo git   worked   I think this mainly happens because Private repo can t be accessed directly

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I was also having same issue  I was trying to clone the repo which was private and my git installed in osx has keychain which was not allowing me to clone the repo      I tried   git clone https   username password github com NAME repo git    but it didn t work as my password was containing the field     I just ran   git credential-osxkeychain erase host github com protocol https   command and press enter and it worked perfectly fine  Actually you need to remove the keychain already stored in the osx

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If you are using cygwin for git and trying to clone a git repository from a network drive you need to add the cygdrive path   For example if you are cloning a git repo from z      git clone  cygdrive z  repo  git

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On github you can have the main repository and subfolders  Make sure that the URL that you are using is that of the main repository and not that of a folder  The former will succeed and the latter will produce the repository not found error  If you have a doubt you are in a subfolder  navigate up the repository chain till you find a page which actually specified the https URL and use that

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git clone https   username github com User Repository git will prompt for a password then clone

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For me it worked by removing the credential helper config and cloning the repository again git config --global --unset credential helper git clone https    lt repository gt

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Most probably  your URL is not valid    If it is a http https URL  you can quickly check  by hammering the URL into a browser  If that does not display anything at all  you know that the URL is invalid   I assume you are speaking of a remote repository  The URLs should look somewhat like these   https   github com user repo2 git if you re using HTTPS git github com user repo2 git if you re using SSH

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If you are using two factor authorization  2FA  for your Github account then just use SSH option for cloning your repository

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I m a devops engineer and this happens with private repositories  Since I manage multiple Github organizations  I have a few different SSH keys  To overcome this ERROR  Repository not found  fatal  Could not read from remote repository  error  you can use  export GIT SSH COMMAND  ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking no -o User git -i    ssh ssh key for repo   git clone git github com user repo git

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Step 1  Copy the link from the HTTPS Step 2  in the local repository do git remote rm origin  Step 2  replace github com with username password github com in the copied url Step 3  git remote add origin url

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open Credential Manager -  look for your GIT devops profile -  click on it -  edit -  add user and password generated in DevOps and save

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Possibly you did login in another account  and that account doesn t have access rights to this repo  if you re using mac os  go to Keychain Access  search for gitlab com and remove it and try to git clone again

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What solved my problem  since I was having a  redirect sign in URL  or  repository not found  error  MacOS Users    Open spotlight  Command Space  Type keychain  Open keychain access app  Search for repo domain  GitHub  GitLab  etc  Delete all keys related to this domain Try to clone again  with valid credentials    Windows users should try similar steps  but Keychain would be Microsoft s Credentials Manager instead or Windows Credentials depending on yours OS version  Make sure to clean both web and windows credentials if that s the case

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This is happening because of my old session state of other user remain  Below is quick solution for Windows users   Open Control Panel from the Start menu Select User Accounts Select  Manage your credentials  in the left hand menu Delete any credentials related to Git or GitHub  Once I did this  it started working for me

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This issue started surfacing on my terminal after I enabled GitHub 2FA    Now  I face this issue whenever I clone a private repository  This error      remote  Repository not found    fatal  repository  https   github com kmario23 repo-name git   not found   is so awkward  Of course  I have this repo and I m the owner of it    Anyway  it seems the fix is now that we have to enter the GitHub username one more time when cloning a private repo  Below is an example                                add your username                                  -------    git clone --recursive https   kmario23 github com kmario23 repo-name git

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if your git repo is private  try this git clone https    lt USERNAME gt   lt PASSWORD gt  github com  lt USERNAME gt   lt REPO NAME gt  git  Note  If you are using   symbol in your password  use   40  to instead     else use this git clone https   github com  lt USERNAME gt   lt REPO NAME gt  git

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On macOS it s possible that the cached credentials in the Keychain that git is retrieving are wrong  It can be an outdated password or that it used the wrong credentials   To update the credentials stored in OS X Keychain  Follow the instructions at   https   help github com articles updating-credentials-from-the-osx-keychain   If you want to verify this is the problem you can run clone with tracing     GIT CURL VERBOSE 1 git clone https   github com YOUR-USERNAME YOUR-REPOSITORY   Look for the header line  Authorization  Basic BASE64STRING    Take the base64 string and decode it to check what username password was used     echo  lt the key gt    base64 --decode   Verify it s the right username password you expected to use

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