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Asked: 2026-05-15T16:33:29+00:00

I’m trying to use GitHub for the first time, but after many issues trying

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I’m trying to use GitHub for the first time, but after many issues trying to get the authentication right, I’ve managed to authenticate with git@github.com and created a repo, but when i try “git push origin master” i get the following error:

$ git push origin master
error: cannot spawn : No such file or directory
fatal: unable to fork

I cant find any reason for the error or any explanation in the trouble shooting pages, can anyone suggest why it may be that I get that error.

I have already specified/added the remote path as follows:

$ git remote add origin git@github.com:christopherdebeer/yUML-Diagram.git

please help.

Also this is all on a windows 7 machine running mysysgit (1.7.0.2) and using git bash.

re: Issue 313, a space in the GIT_SSH variable, cant be the problem mine is as follows:

$GIT_SSH="c:/putty/plink.exe"
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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not sure if it was just stupid of myself, but I’ve solved the problem…
    Here’s what I did (from advice, from work colleagues):

    I was attempting to push changes in a local repo to an empty repo on github…

    what i should have done was clone the empty repo, add the files locally to my cloned repo, added the files, commited the adds, and THEN push to the github repo…

    $ git clone git@github.com:christopherdebeer/yUML-Diagram.git
 // added files
$ git add *
$ git commit -m "first commit locally"
$ git push origin master

    My original problems might have been due to my totaly naivety as to gits usage…

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