git github cannot push to origin

Question

I may be missing something, but I'm sure that I've checked everything, I forked a repo and cloned it on my system, made some changes after commiting did git push origin master

it says

fatal: remote error: You can't push to git://github.com/my_username/my_repo.git Use [email protected]:my_username/my_repo.git

Am I missing something? then I tried git remote add origin https://github.com/my_username/my_repo.git

it returned

fatal: remote origin already exists.

I dont understand why this is hapenning, pls help

vincent mathew · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-19 13:32:11Z

The url with

git://github.com/my_username/my_repo.git

git:// Only gives read only access as mentioned in the side too..

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Whereas,

[email protected]:my_username/my_repo.git

gives read and write access as mentioned in site

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Though, https://github.com/my_username/my_repo.git also has read and write access but it was not working in your case because you trying to create a new remote with the same name instead of resetting it. The correct syntax as mentioned was

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:my_username/my_repo.git

And

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/my_username/my_repo.git

would also work.

Yuval Adam · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-19 12:45:22Z

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git remote set-url origin [email protected]:my_username/my_repo.git

answered Jun 19, 2012 at 12:45

Yuval Adam

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pahnin Over a year ago

that worked and I'll accept this answer after the time limit, bt can you eplain me what the problem was? and many thnks

vincent mathew Over a year ago

I think https url is only for read only repository fetching. But git@github also gives write and read access.

dunni · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-19 13:22:09Z

The reason why this does not work is, that the git:// protocol, which you chose for cloning, is only configured for read access at Github (since it only would support anonymous write access without access restrictions).
Github supports both ssh ([email protected]...) and https for write access to repositories.

Your second command fails, because when you clone, git already creates a remote named origin. So if you want to add another remote repository, you have to give another name.

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