error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/

Question

this is my repository https://github.com/kiotie32/artbit-text.git when I do

$ git push -u origin master
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/kiotie32/arbit-text.git/' not found

I am on a Windows 10 machine. I had configured ssh keys to be used with this laptop. I do an ls and I can see

 MINGW64 ~/.ssh
$ ls
kiotie32_rsa  kiotie32_rsa.pub  known_hosts

I read all the answers given on this thread I changed the password stored in windows credential manager.

I check git remote -v | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/.*\///' | sed 's/\.git//' I get following output arbit-text

I changed the password stored in windows credentials manager probably an old password was stored.

I do not get any popup asking username password. (an ssh key was configured but not sure if that is working on this Windows 10 environment I have the key stored in .ssh in git bash) Now I do

$ git remote add origin https://github.com/kiotie32/arbit-text.git
fatal: remote origin already exists.

then I do

$ git push -u origin master
error: src refspec master does not match any
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/kotie32/arbit-text.git'

So I am not able to understand why this error is coming/

I tried the solution here https://stackoverflow.com/a/7572252/13012032 first answer to do
git commit -m "initial master"
and then I got
$ git push origin master remote: Repository not found. fatal: repository 'github.com/kotie32/arbit-text.git' not found
then I tried as in comments
git add -all and then I did
$ git push origin master remote: Repository not found. fatal: repository 'https://github.com/kotie32/arbit-text.git/' not found

then from another answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/4183856/13012032 I tried
$ git show-ref 79d1730e9aa78f68a11ec4de6a0e8d6b66f17afb refs/heads/master
then I did
$ git push origin HEAD:master remote: Repository not found. fatal: repository 'https://github.com/kotie32/arbit-text.git/' not found

I notice in the last error on above url spelling kotie32 is wrong it should be kiotie32 checkd the config file inside the .git folder and there I see the following

[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = false
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
        symlinks = false
        ignorecase = true
[remote "origin"]
        url = https://github.com/kiotie32/arbit-text.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

so here url is corrrect the spelling is kiotie32 which is correct.

ok I now noticed that 2 directories have formed. project folder/.git/.git and config file of <project folder>/.git has wrong url and the inner one i.e. <project folder>/.git/.git has correct url.

I changed the config file of <project folder>/.git and deleted subdirectory .git/.git the new config file has

[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = false
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
        symlinks = false
        ignorecase = true
[remote "origin"]
        url = https://github.com/kiotie32/arbit-text.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

and then I again do

$ git push -u origin master
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/kiotie32/arbit-text.git/' not found

then I did

$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/kiotie32/artbit-text.git

then now I am able to push to master branch.

Answer 1

I had the same problem but this command resolved it.

Replace:

git push -u origin master

with following command:

git push -u origin main

or

git push -f origin main

Answer 2

Just give a try to the following command:

git push origin master --force

Answer 3

check maybe you are trying to push without commiting. try to commit you changes.

git commit -m "my commit"

or type git branch to see if you have set the remote url. if nothing shows up, then add the remote origin url git remote add origin https://github.com/username/projectname.git. then try git push origin master