Android Studio - Push failed: fatal: Could not read from remote repository

Question

I have a git project at Android Studio and a remote at BitBucket and I changed it to use SSH instead of HTTPS. I can make everything work using Atlassian's SourceTree, but in Android Studio every time I try to push the project it says

Push failed: fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Does anyone have a clue about what could be happening?

Solution 1

This is probably an Intellij problem. Your key are managed natively by ssh, and Intellij has it's own ssh program.

Go to the settings, search git->ssh executable then choose native

As seen here : git with IntelliJ IDEA: Could not read from remote repository

Solution 2

Go to Settings > Version Control > Git. Make sure SSH executable is set to “Native.”

If it's already set, switch back to “Built-in,” apply it, and then again switch back to “Native".

Solution 3

There is two ways for Git SSH verification in Android Studio or IntelliJ, changing via: settings - Version Control - Git - SSH excuteable - "Built-in" or "Native"

1. Built-in : means using ssh key pair built in Git for authentication. you can generate it via
   ssh-keygen -t rsa
   the default saved path is "~/.ssh/id_rsa" and "~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub". You should add the Public key in your BitBucket account. the path like : manage account - SSH keys - add keys
2. Native : means using the ssh pair generated by the native repository hosting service, such as BitBucket or GitHub, which is often auto-add in the service account. For example in GitHub. It generated a pair of SSH key, "~/.ssh/github_rsa.pub" and "~/.ssh/github_rsa" and the Public key has been auto-added in my account via GitHub GUI maybe. So change the SSH executable to "Native" could be a simple way.

Anyway, you can use the both way after you add the correct Public key in you acoount in repository hosting service.

Solution 4

Despite my SSH-executable was set to Native I was getting that error because I have set password for SSH key file.

I haven't found the way how to specify password in Android studio but there is another solution, you can remove password which can be done with $ ssh-keygen -p. Then just confirm file location, enter your old password and leave new password blank.

Taken from How do I remove the passphrase for the SSH key without having to create a new key?

Solution 5

Another solution that helped me was "Use credential helper".

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