Last Updated: February 07, 2017
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· dfang

fatal: remote error: You can't push to git

last time , when i git push my own github repo, i got this error

fatal: remote error:    You can't push to git://github.com/user/repo.git   Use     https://github.com/user/repo.git

after some googling and reading github help, i found this:
https://help.github.com/articles/pushing-to-a-remote#what-can-i-push-to

that is URL like git://github.com/user/repo.git is read-only, SSH URL like git@github.com:user/repo.git and HTTPS URL like https://github.com/user/repo.git are writeable.

so the solution is pretty simple:

git remote rm origin
git remote add origin git@github.com:user/repo.git
git push origin master

Hope it helps !

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You do know that GitHub provides all this URLs nicely in the sidebar, right?

over 1 year ago ·

@mrfoto, yes i see the repo url is https://github.com/user/repo.git when i not loged in, and git@github.com:user/repo.git when logged in, maybe i cloned the repo using git://github.com/user/repo.git, not copied but by memory, haha

over 1 year ago ·

Helped me! I forgot that git:// is read-only, I must have not been logged in when grabbing that URL.

over 1 year ago ·
over 1 year ago ·

thx, good to know!

over 1 year ago ·

Awesome

over 1 year ago ·