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 git@github.com: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
The url with
git://github.com/my_username/my_repo.git
git:// Only gives read only access as mentioned in the side too..
Whereas,
git@github.com:my_username/my_repo.git
gives read and write access as mentioned in site
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 git@github.com:my_username/my_repo.git
And
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/my_username/my_repo.git
would also work.
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:my_username/my_repo.git
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 (git@github.com...) 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.