Pushing to Git returning Error Code 403 fatal: HTTP request failed

Question

I was able to clone a copy of this repo over HTTPS authenticated. I\'ve made some commits and want to push back out to the GitHub server. Using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64.

Answer 1

I faced the same error and the cause was stupid - I did not have privileges to commit to selected repository. I did not know that I have to

1. fork selected project first
2. clone repository locally
3. commit my changes locally
4. push changes to my github clone
5. request pull request to upstream

as described in https://help.github.com/categories/63/articles