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Asked: 2026-06-05T21:58:09+00:00

I may be missing something, but I’m sure that I’ve checked everything, I forked

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I may be missing something, but I’m sure that I’ve checked everything,
I forked a repo and cloned it on my system,
made some changes
after commiting
did git push origin master

it says 

fatal: remote error: 
  You can't push to git://github.com/my_username/my_repo.git
  Use git@github.com:my_username/my_repo.git

Am I missing something?
then I tried

git remote add origin https://github.com/my_username/my_repo.git

it returned

fatal: remote origin already exists.

I dont understand why this is hapenning, pls help

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  1. Editorial Team

    The url with 

    git://github.com/my_username/my_repo.git

    git:// Only gives read only access as mentioned in the side too..

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    Whereas,

    git@github.com:my_username/my_repo.git

    gives read and write access as mentioned in site

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    Though, https://github.com/my_username/my_repo.git also has read and write access but it was not working in your case because you trying to create a new remote with the same name instead of resetting it. The correct syntax as mentioned was

    git remote set-url origin git@github.com:my_username/my_repo.git

    And

    git remote set-url origin https://github.com/my_username/my_repo.git

    would also work.

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