Question

I am new to GitHub, but I have followed the steps to create a repo:

$ mkdir fb
$ cd fb 
$ git init 
$ git add README 
$ git commit -m 'first commit'
$ git push origin master

Now when I try to make my first commit, I get the follwowing error:

$ git push origin master
error: Cannot access URL https://github.com/xxx/yyy/, return code 60
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/xxx/yyy'

I am using the latest git version. Why does GitHub throw this unusal error and how do I fix it?

Answer 1

What if you try using the SSH protocol for the git repository, e.g. [e-mail]:xxx/yyy.git, and see if that works for you?

$ git remote rm origin

$ git remote add origin [e-mail]:xxx/yyy.git