fatal: I don't handle protocol

Question

When I try to push to Heroku, I get the following error messages.

[first_app]$git push heroku master
fatal: I don't handle protocol '[email protected]:yourhttp'

I then took a look at the different versions of Heroku that I have and there seems to be more than one so I tried deleting it but got another error message.

[first_app]$ git remote set-url --delete heroku [email protected]:yourhttp://still-lake-3136.herokuapp.com/.git
fatal: Will not delete all non-push URLs

I searched for similar error messages but was not able to find anything to fix this one. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Here is my config file:

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    ignorecase = true
[remote "origin"]
    url = [email protected]:wongsteven/first_app.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master
[remote "heroku"]
    url = [email protected]:yourhttp://still-lake-3136.herokuapp.com/.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/heroku/*
[heroku]
    remote = heroku

not able to push to heroku | git error: cannot handle https | heroku + git submodule needs authentication | error: "fatal: I don't handle protocol ``git` when using bundle install | Git/GitHub can't push to master

Answer 1

Put quotes around the url of the Git repository (this worked for me. I'm using Windows 8.1)

Answer 2

The error is in your configuration. This line:

[remote "heroku"]
    url = [email protected]:yourhttp://still-lake-3136.herokuapp.com/.git

Is complete nonsense. I don't know how that line ended up there. You must have copy-pasted something from somewhere the wrong way. My guess is it should look like this:

[remote "heroku"]
    url = [email protected]:still-lake-3136.git

If that does not work you should really follow the instruction here to initiate a remote repository:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git

In that case you can delete the whole [remote "heroku"] section (actually the 5 last lines) from your config file before proceeding with those instructions.

One of those two (editing the line, or reinitializing the repository) should fix your problem.