Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository
Solution 1
Possibly not the best solution but considering there was nothing in the repository I had created in github I used the following command and it worked out:
git push -f origin master
Solution 2
If you did not properly setup your ssh key with GitHub, you can at least try with https (which you mentioned):
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/monajalal/instagram-scraper.git
That will ask for your username (monajalal
)/password of your GitHub account.
That will work because you own that repository, meaning you have the right to push.
Make sure you have made a commit locally in order to push.
git add .
git commit -m "new commit"
git push -u origin master
The fact that you might be forced to do a git push -f
means the destination (the remote GitHub repo) is not empty but includes commits of its own (typically, a README.md
or a LICENSE
file)
In that case, it is best, with Git 2.9 or more, to do:
git config --global pull.rebase true
git config --global rebase.autoStash true
Then
git pull
That will replay your local commits on top of those present in (and fetched form) the GitHub repo.
Then a simple git push -u origin master
would work. No need to force push your history.
Mona Jalal
contact me at [email protected] I am a 5th-year computer science Ph.D. Candidate at Boston University advised by Professor Vijaya Kolachalama in computer vision as the area of study. Currently, I am working on my proposal exam and thesis on the use of efficient computer vision and deep learning for cancer detection in H&E stained digital pathology images.
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Mona Jalal almost 2 years
I have the following in my
.git/config
1 [core] 2 repositoryformatversion = 0 3 filemode = true 4 bare = false 5 logallrefupdates = true 6 [remote "origin"] 7 url = [email protected]:monajalal/instagram-scraper.git 8 fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
When I am trying to push the changes to the master I get this error:
$ git push -u origin master Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.
I have tried these both but still get error:
2150 git remote set-url origin https://github.com/monajalal/instagram-scraper.git 2154 git remote set-url origin [email protected]:monajalal/instagram-scraper.git mona@pascal:~/computer_vision/instagram/instagram$ git log commit e69644389a5c7be65ae6eae14d74065e221600cb Author: Mona Jalal <[email protected]> Date: Wed Mar 1 17:48:00 2017 -0600 scrapy for instagram skeleton mona@pascal:~/computer_vision/instagram/instagram$ git status On branch master nothing to commit, working directory clean $ uname -a ; lsb_release -a Linux pascal 3.13.0-62-generic #102-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 11 14:29:36 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty
Please suggest fixes.