git push error: the requested URL returned error 400

Question

I am new to Git and I am trying to to push a Java project to Github using Git Bash.

This is what I did:

• created a Blog repository in GitHub

• in Git Bash

  $ cd C:/Users/Alessandro/workspace/BLOG

  $ echo "# Blog" >> README.md

  $ git add –-all

  $ git commit -m "Initial commit"

  $ git remote add origin https://github.com/alerossi82/Blog

  $ git push -u origin master

But when I do the push, this is the result I get:

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/username/repository/': The requested URL returned error: 400

I read somewhere this is could be a login problem, but I checked my config in GitBash and the username and email match with GitHub. When I commit the push, I I am logged in to my GitHub account and I do not receive any insert password request from GitBash.

Then I tried to push the project directly from Eclipse, but this failed as well, in fact when I push the changes I receive the message: - master >> master [rejected - non-fast-forward]

I am totally lost, I think all the step are correct however it looks like my local and remote repositories don't want to talk to each other, and I have no idea why.

Any help?

Answer 1

Had a similar problem and it turned out that I had some issues with my .gitconfig file since I had earlier run git config --global url."[email protected]:".insteadOf "https://github.com/" and later git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf "[email protected]:" which added both lines to my .gitconfig file. So all I did was clean my .gitconfig file using vim in my terminal(Iterm) :

$ vi $HOME/.gitconfig

Then removed the unwanted lines from the .gitconfig file using vim editor. Hope it helps.