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

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I am using TortoiseGit on Windows  When I am trying to Clone from the context menu of the standard Windows Explorer  I get this error      Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists   More precisely  the snapshot of terminal is the following      git exe clone  --progress -v   git arobotdev  git AlfaRobot git   C  Work AlfaRobot       Cloning into  C  Work AlfaRobot       Permission denied  please try again    Permission denied  please try again    Permission denied  publickey password     fatal  Could not read from remote repository       Please make sure you have the correct access rights   and the repository exists       git did not exit cleanly  exit code 128   21450 ms   19 09 2014 10 36 58    What should I do to make git work properly

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For me it gave the same error of   Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists   A quick fix was to eliminate the    ssh config file mv config config old  amp  amp  touch config  eval  quot   ssh-agent -s  quot   git clone your repo    As it turned out to be the config file that was corrupt and configured with two ids

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Github now uses a url scheme  git remote set-url origin https   github com username repository git

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Similar issue  I gave passphrase when Git-cloned using SSH URL for git  So this error now shows up  each time I opened VS Code on Windows 10 Below fixed the issue  1   Run the below command in CMD setx SSH ASKPASS  quot C  Program Files Git mingw64 libexec git-core git-gui--askpass quot  setx DISPLAY needs-to-be-defined  2   Exit CMD  amp  VS Code 3   Reopen VS Code 4   VS Code now shows a popup dialog where we can enter passpharse Above commands are for Windows OS  similar instructions will work for Linux MAC

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Strangely I only received this error in 1 of my many repos   My issue was after installing the new GitHub Desktop for Windows where the previous old GitHub for Win kept keys in    ssh github rsa and    ssh github rsa pub where as the new GitHub for Win expects it in    ssh id rsa so the solution was just renaming the existing private and public keys      ssh github rsa - gt     ssh id rsa    ssh github rsa pub - gt     ssh id rsa pub   After which let me access the repo again without issue

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I come across this error while uploading project to gitlab  I didn t clone from git but instead upload project  For pushing your code to gitlab you have two ways either using ssh or https  If you use https you have to enter username and password of gitlab account  For pushing you code to git you can use following one   Pushing to Git for the first time   gt   cd  gt   mkdir  ssh cd  ssh  gt   ssh-keygen -o -t rsa -b 4096 -C  email example com    The -C parameter is optional  it provides a comment at the end of your key to distinguish it from others if you have multiple  This will create id rsa  your private key  and id rsa pub  your public key   We pass our public key around and keep our private key     well  private  Gitlab   s User Settings is where you would then add your public key to your account  allowing us to finally push   In your project location Directory  use below command  git init   It Transform the current directory into a Git repository  This adds a  git subdirectory to the current directory and makes it possible to start recording revisions of the project   Push Using https path  git push --set-upstream https   gitlab com Account User Name Your Project Name git master   Push Using ssh path  git push --set-upstream git gitlab com Account User Name Your project Name git master       set-upstream  tells git the path to origin  If Git has previously pushed on your current branch  it will remember where origin is  master  this is the name of the branch I want to push to when initializing

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The rsa pub  i e  public key generated   needs to be added on the github   settings  ssh keys page  Check that  you have not added this public key in the repository-settings    deployment keys  If so  remove the entry from here and add to the first place mentioned   Setup of the pub-private keys in detail   It will work hence

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Try deleting known hosts file by using below command  rm    ssh known hosts

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Try https instead of ssh  Choose the https option from project home page where you copy the clone url from

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Your git URL might have changed  Change the URL in the local directory by using the following command for https protocol git remote set-url origin https   github com username repository git  for ssh protocol git remote set-url origin git github com username repository git

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If it was working before and suddenly stopped working  This issue can be caused because sometimes ssh-agent is not persistent across reboots  You should check if ssh-agent has your key added  ssh-add -l -E md5  if you get the output like  The agent has no identities   it means ssh-agent has lost your key  In that case  you simply need to add the identity key again  Something like  ssh-add    ssh git rsa  The error should disappear now

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Try to use HTTPS instead SSH while taking clone from GIT  use this Url for take clone   you can use Gitbase  Android Studio or any other tool for clone the branch

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An alternative problem may be your internet connection  Obvious maybe  but took me a few minutes to figure out my wifi was down

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I had this problem  and i discover that my system was with wrong dns address  Verify your network and test with  ssh -vvv git bitbucket org   And read the output messages  If you see  You can use git or hg to connect to Bitbucket     everything is ok

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Adding ssh key worked for me  You can create ssh key with ssh-keygen command on mac   You should be able to see Deploy keys menu on YourRepository Settings don t forget to check Allow write access option   deploy keys menu screenshot

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use your https origin instead of ssh url  example   git remote add origin  https   gitlab com user folder git

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For me i was having issue with company VPN  after disconnecting working fine    Check connection with github using command ssh -vvvT git github com

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You are trying to clone the repository over ssh  git arobotdev     and your SSH keys are not properly set on server  There are multiple reasons to this    Your public key might not be saved in authorized keys file of user git If 1 is not true the Your private key is not saved in  ssh  folder of your HOMEDIR  Permissions are not properly set   If all 3 above are untrue then my only conclusion can be to try  git arobotdev AlfaRobot git Assuming AlfaRobot git is in HOMEDIR of git user and not inside a folder called git which resides in HOMEDIR of user git

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For me it was because of no SSH key on the machine  Check the SSH key locally     cat    ssh id rsa pub   This is your SSH key  Add it to your SSH keys in the repository  In gitlab go to      profile settings -  SSH Keys    and add the key

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That problem might be having with your ssh-agent  your ssh key hasn t been added with ssh-agent You have to apply following steps using your terminal -    eval  quot   ssh-agent -s  quot  Agent pid 5867    ssh-add Enter passphrase for  home you  ssh id rsa     Identity added   home you  ssh id rsa   home you  ssh id rsa    then it will work  cheers J

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My case  I use Windows and I have more than 1 user account  I was receiving the same error and the fix was to start the git bash with administrator rights

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I m using Ubuntu after reading many of answers  none of them can solve the problem  even if I already added SSH key to my git account  and try test it using ssh -T git gitlab com and it said Welcome  lt my username gt   but it still kept telling me that I don t have access rights  Then I found the reason  Normally if you re not root user  it will require you to run with sudo for every git command  when running sudo git clone  lt SSH     gt   for example   it will be executed under root permission  but accidentally when create SSH key I run it as normal user and I save the key in    ssh id rsa  it resolves the absolute path  home username  ssh id rsa  And when doing sudo git clone     it looks for SSH key in  root  ssh id rsa Why I can sure about this  To see where git looks for your SSH key  Run this command  sudo GIT TRACE 1 GIT SSH COMMAND  quot ssh -vvv quot  git clone  lt your repository in SSH gt   It will show you where it looks for your SSH key  So the SOLUTION I suggest is  Re-creating your SSH key  follow this instruction   BUT run sudo su at the very first step  then you ll should be fine

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Very common mistake was done by me  I copied using clip command xclip -sel clip  lt     ssh id rsa pub  but during pasting into github key input box  I removed last newline using backspace  which actually changed the public key   So  always copy  amp  paste ssh public key as it is without removing last newline

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Like other answers  use https instead of ssh was the solution   I post an answer to give a concrete example of a possible solution  I solved this issue with bitbucket when I changed remote url to HTTPS with this command line   git remote set-url origin  lt bitbucket URL gt    After that  I could push the content to the repository with this command   git push -u origin --all   And then I could also use Sourcetree

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I experienced this issue when I had an invalid RSA SSH key  and a valid ED25519 SSH key on my machine  I believe Gitlab was checking the RSA key  failing and stopping there before checking the ED25519 key  I fixed this by deleting both of the keys I had on my device and generating a new RSA SSH  and providing that too gitlab

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Switching to the use of https works  First switch to https rather than ssh keys  git remote set-url origin  It will then request for the git username and password

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This can also happen if you are connecting to your git repository through a VPN  Make sure that you are connected to the VPN which is used to access the resources of your organization

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add these lines to your  get config file  thanks to  kovshenin answer Git Pull  Change Authentication      credential      helper   wincred

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If you re on a shared machine  using your own password or passwordless private key might be overkill  The safer option is an access token   Go to Settings  Developer Settings  Personal access tokens Generate new token  Note what the token is for  Grant repo access  Clone the repo     git clone https    lt token gt  github com  lt user gt   lt repo gt  git  If you ve already cloned the repo  you could just modify your remote setting    git remote set-url origin https    lt token gt  github com  lt user gt   lt repo gt  git   git pull Already up to date

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Here is how I solve this issue  I was using Babun mintty exe  on Win7 10  When I have tried many solutions mentioned above  and none of them works  I realized maybe I just used wrong ssh agent     So I run echo  GIT SSH to find out  it shows the path to Plink exe  What I actually expected is OpenSSH   So  I add following one-liner to    zshrc file     Note 1  You can execute it in babun directly also   Note 2  You if you use bash then the config file is  bashrc    export GIT SSH   which ssh    And It works

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The first thing you may want to confirm is the internet connection  Though  internet issues mostly will say that the repo cannot be accessed  Ensure you have set up ssh both locally and on your github  See how  Ensure you are using the ssh git remote  If you had cloned the https  just set the url to the ssh url  with this git command git remote set-url origin git github com your-username your-repo-name git If you have set up ssh properly but it just stopped working  do the following    eval    ssh-agent -s   ssh-add   If you are still having the issue  check to ensure that you have not deleted the ssh from your github  In a case where the ssh has been deleted from github  you can add it back  Use pbcopy  lt     ssh id rsa pub to copy the ssh key and then go to your github ssh setting and add it       I will recommend you always use ssh  For most teams I ve worked with  you can t access the repo  which are mostly private  except you use ssh  For a beginner  it may appear to be harder but later you ll find it quite easier and more secured

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