Github Organization "remote: Repository not found." via Https Clone

Question

I have been using Github as an individual for some time. Now I need to create an organization and start a repo in the organization.

So, logged in to Github as myself, I created the new organization. I then created a repo. Viewing the repo I can see that I am a contributor to the repo. The repo is, and needs to be, private.

When I try to clone:

$ git clone https://github.com/my-organization/my-repo.git my-repo-folder
Cloning into 'my-repo-folder'...
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/my-organization/my-repo.git/' not found

Locally git is remembering my credentials, so for example, if I have a repository in my personal Github repos, which is private, then git clone https://github.com/Webern/my-personal-private-repo.git works without requesting that I re-enter my Github username and password.

What is going on with the organization? How do I clone my newly-formed organizations private repo?

Answer 1

Ultimately I believe the problem had something to do with the caching of credentials in my Mac's Keychain. The complete list of steps taken to fix the problem is below, but I believe the crucial step was to delete all Github credentials using Mac OS's Keychain Access utility.

Adding the username and password to the https URL does work, but seems like a bad idea for permanent use.

MyMac:~ mjb$ git clone https://MyGithubUsername:[email protected]/my-organization/my-repo.git
MyMac:~ mjb$ cd my-repo
MyMac:my-repo mjb$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/my-organization/my-repo.git

After changing the URL back so that it does not contain my username and password, I still could not connect to the remote.

MyMac:my-repo mjb$ git push origin --all
remote: Repository not found.

Now I did a bunch of flailing with git config, which I suppose was unnecessary.

MyMac:my-repo mjb$ git config --global user.name MyGithubUsername

MyMac:my-repo mjb$ git --version
git version 2.15.0

MyMac:my-repo mjb$ git config --global credential.helper manager
MyMac:my-repo mjb$ git push origin --all
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/my-organization/my-repo.git/' not found
MyMac:my-repo mjb$ git config --global --unset credential.helper
MyMac:my-repo mjb$ git push origin --all
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/my-organization/my-repo.git/' not found

Now I went on my Mac to Utilities -> Keychain Access I deleted all credentials relating to Github
What is strange about this is that they were correct, and when I entered my username and password again I was entering the same username and password.

MyMac:my-repo mjb$ git push origin --all
Username for 'https://github.com': MyGithubUsername
Password for 'https://[email protected]': MyGithubPassword
Counting objects: 3, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 651 bytes | 651.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

Success.