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Asked: 2026-06-17T08:52:30+00:00

I forked and then cloned a github repo, to which I made some changes,

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I forked and then cloned a github repo, to which I made some changes, committed them, and then tried to push:

Nates-MacBook-Pro-2:ReReplay nate$ git push origin master
fatal: remote error: 
  You can't push to git://github.com/natereed/ReReplay.git
  Use git@github.com:natereed/ReReplay.git
Nates-MacBook-Pro-2:ReReplay nate$

What does the error message mean?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The error seems to suggest a solution:

    You can't push to git://github.com/natereed/ReReplay.git 
Use git@github.com:natereed/ReReplay.git

    What it means is that git:// URLs are typically “anonymous” — they don’t support authentication, and thus on Github you can’t write to them. In order to write to a repository, you need to access it using ssh (git@github.com:...) or http.

    This assumes, of course, that your GitHub account has been given write access to the repository.

    You can reconfigure your local copy of the repository to use the ssh URL like this:

    git remote set-url origin git@github.com:natereed/ReReplay.git
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