Git : fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists

I am getting this error -

D:\Projects\wamp\www\REPO [master]> git pull origin master
Warning: Permanently added 'github.com,192.30.252.128' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
ERROR: Repository not found.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

The output of git remote -v

D:\Projects\wamp\www\REPO [master]> git remote -v
origin  [email protected]:username/repo.git (fetch)
origin  [email protected]:username/repo.git (push)

Final message of ssh -Tv [email protected] command -

Hi [My Username]! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

How can I solve it?

change your ssh url by an http url for your remote 'origin', use:

> git remote set-url origin https://github.com/<user_name>/<repo_name>.git

It will ask for your GitHub password on the git push.

I asked in the discussion:

>> does ssh -T [email protected] ouput the same username (in Hi [My Username]!) as in the one used for the ssh url of your repo ([email protected]:username/repo.git)? > > Sorry It not showing same name

That means somehow the credentials have changed.

One solution would be to at least copy %HOME%\.ssh\id_rsa.pub in the SSH keys section of the right GitHub account

The OP adds:

> > I am working on private repo. So In [email protected]:username/repo.git,

I replied:

> If you were able to clone/push to that repo whose username is not your own GitHub account, that must be because you had your previous public ssh key added as a contributor to that repo by the repo's owner. > > What next is to ask that same repo owner to add your current public ssh key %HOME%\.ssh\id_rsa.pub to the repo contributor list.
So check with the owner that you (meaning your public ssh key) are declared as a contributor.

This usually happens when you use two ssh keys to access two different GitHub account.

Follow these steps to fix this it look too long but trust me it won't take more than 5 minutes:

Step-1: Create two ssh key pairs:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

Step-2: It will create two ssh keys here:

~/.ssh/id_rsa_account1
~/.ssh/id_rsa_account2

Step-3: Now we need to add these keys:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_account2
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_account1

> - You can see the added keys list by using this command: ssh-add -l > - You can remove old cached keys by this command: ssh-add -D

Step-4: Modify the ssh config

cd ~/.ssh/
touch config

subl -a config or code config or nano config

Step-5: Add this to config file:

#Github account1
Host github.com-account1
	HostName github.com
	User account1
	IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_account1

#Github account2
Host github.com-account2
	HostName github.com
	User account2
	IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_account2

Step-6: Update your .git/config file:

Step-6.1: Navigate to account1's project and update host:

[remote "origin"]
        url = git@github.com-account1:account1/gfs.git

If you are invited by some other user in their git Repository. Then you need to update the host like this:

[remote "origin"]
            url = git@github.com-account1:invitedByUserName/gfs.git

Step-6.2: Navigate to account2's project and update host:

[remote "origin"]
        url = git@github.com-account2:account2/gfs.git

Step-7: Update user name and email for each repository separately if required this is not an amendatory step:

Navigate to account1 project and run these:

git config user.name "account1"
git config user.email "[email protected]" 

Navigate to account2 project and run these:

git config user.name "account2"
git config user.email "[email protected]" 

Sometimes that (copying the pub ssh key to github/bitbucket) is not enough, particularly with Bitbucket. You also may need to check if your ssh is using the identity you expect rather than messing up with git remote

Check if the agent is using the same identity you pasted on github/bitbucket with ssh-add -l. If missing add it with

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa_my_git_identity

Further details: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/configure-multiple-ssh-identities-for-gitbash-mac-osx-linux-271943168.html

This error happened to me too as the original repository creator had left the company, which meant their account was deleted from the github team.

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/<user_name>/<repo_name>.git

And then git pull origin develop or whatever git command you wanted to execute should prompt you for a login and continue as normal.

This error can be because of no SSH key on the your local machine. Check the SSH key locally:

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

If above command do not give any output use below command to create ssh key(Linux/Mac):

$ ssh-keygen 

Now again run cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub This is your SSH key. Copy and add this key to your SSH keys in on git. In gitlab/bitbucket go to

profile settings -> SSH Keys -> add Key

and add the key

Sometimes this happens to me because of network problems. I don't understand the problem fully, but switching to a different sub-network or using VPN solves it

ssh-add -D  # Delete all identities.
ssh-add ~/.ssh/your_key

Edit 1
Since I get so many votes, I discovered some issue with this approach and that is that it will remove all your identities so you might have the same issue when you try to read from other repositories and you will need to to this step again for each project...but it might also not be the case for your project

For me, I was getting this error because my ssh agent was not running somehow. Doing this worked:

eval `ssh-agent -s`
ssh-add path_to_your_key

I got the very same errors too. In My case upgrading from Windows 7 to 8 messed up my settings. What helped was to regenerate the private and public SSH keys using PuTTYGen, and change the SSH tool in tortoisegit from SSH to Plink.

I have shared the step by step steps also at http://techblog.saurabhkumar.com/2015/09/using-tortoisegit-on-windows-with.html

For me none of the solutions here solved it. Frustrated, I restarted my Macbook's iTerm terminal, and voila! My github authorization started working again.

Weird, but maybe iTerm has its own way of handling SSH authorizations or that my terminal session wasn't authorized somehow.

I had this issue and tried many things but still din't work. Eventually I decided to generate another SSH KEY and boom - it worked. Follow this article by github to guide you on how to generate your SSH KEY.

Lastly don't forget to add it to your github settings. Click here for a guide on how to add your SSH KEY to your github account.

Maybe, as in my silly situation, you may somehow created the ssh key by directly typing

ssh-keygen

And so it is created with the local system user credentials so they don't match, use full command like this and recreate

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com"

Try:

git config --global credential.helper cache

This command prevents git to ask username and password, not forever but with a default limit to 15 minutes.

git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'

This moves the default limit to 1 hour.

In my case updating GIT helps - I had version 2.23 and with installing version 2.26.2.windows.1 problem disapears.

So if you are sure your SSH key is valid then (see @VonC answer):

1. update GIT
2. update composer
3. run composer clearcache

And it should be ok.

This issue could be related with missing SSH key at Github or any other git server.

In my case I had copied code to another computer and tried to git pull. It failed.

So I had to generate a new SSH key on that machine and update profile on git server with additional SSH key.

Strangely I had this occur with a single repository out of > 20 repositories on my MacBook Pro.

The solution was to upgrade git via homebrew, and everything strangely worked after it finished:

brew install git

Hope this helps someone!

Its not necessary to apply above solutions, I simply changed my internet, it was working fine with my home internet but after 3 to 4 hours my friend suggest me to connect with different internet then I did data package and connect my laptop with it, now it is working fine.

I had the same problem. I tried a couple of solutions mentioned above, it did not work for me. I even restarted my machine and also reconnected my WLAN. But all in vain. Then on the remote repo, I manually made a small change in the readme file of the repo. To pull that change on the local copy of my repo in my machine, I did the usual git pull and then the git push origin. This actually worked.