Could not read from remote repository

Question

I have received the following error multiple times:

Could not read remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repo

Answer 1

On Windows open file:
C:\Users\<USER_NAME>\.ssh\config

You should have your host defined in the "config" file:

host gitlab.com
 HostName gitlab.com
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_user_private_key

host bitbucket.org
 HostName bitbucket.org
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_user_private_key

host github.com
 HostName github.com
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_user_private_key

Answer 2

Hi my problem was that my client did not ask if I recognized the key. Opening a terminal and doing ssh -T git@github.com worked. The response in the terminal asked if I wanted to add the key, I said yes and after that, my client worked fine

Answer 3

Assuming you have done the proper SSH keys configuration according to github's instructions it might be a problem of pull with https and later pushing with git+ssh

to make it more clear

if you have used https to pull

git pull https://github.com/user/repo.git

then you have changed remote URL

git remote set-url origin git+ssh://github.com/user/repo.git

and tried to push after some changes and commits

git push origin master

you might get this error it happened to me

erase the local repository and re-clone using git+ssh

git pull git+ssh://github.com/user/repo.git

and now your push should work

Answer 4

I had the same issue with Pycharm on Ubuntu the solution is to use https instead of SSH for example : https://github.com/Bedo1212/myrepo.git

Answer 5

In addition to setting the identity files in the ssh config, I also had to set the git remote to the right user - complete solution in https://www.keybits.net/post/automatically-use-correct-ssh-key-for-remote-git-repo/

vi ~/.ssh/config
Host github.com-myuser
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/mykey

I made sure I had this identity file loaded with ssh-add -l

ssh-add -l
4096 SHA256:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX mykey (RSA)

Then I set my remote to include the right user

git remote set-url origin git@github.com-myuser:myuser/myrepo.git

Then the push worked

git push -u origin master
Enumerating objects: 146, done.
Counting objects: 100% (146/146), done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (144/144), done.
Writing objects: 100% (146/146), 9.71 MiB | 7.48 MiB/s, done.
Total 146 (delta 10), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (10/10), done.
To git@github.com-myuser:myuser/myrepo.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master

Voila

Answer 6

If you're using SSH, make sure you're using a network that allows SSH. Most public networks allow only HTTP(S) traffic.