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Isuru
Isuru

Reputation: 31283

Pushing a branch to a remote server fails

I have a project which uses Git on a remote server. I installed SourceTree for Mac to manage it. I also have a .ssh folder with the private in the root directory where I keep all my projects and the public key is in the server.

I was able to clone the project successfully and even commit+push it back with no problem. Then I ceated a branch in my local repo, added a new file and tried commit+push it. It was committed but the pushing failed with the following error message.

Pushing to git@gitserver:gitbtest

ssh: Could not resolve hostname gitserver: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

I'm not sure why this is happening. Is there a way to set SSH keys in SourceTree for Mac? I can't seem to find any option to do so.

Any help to resolve this would be great.

Thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 835

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323273

An url like git@gitserver:gitbtest can only work if one have an ssh config file in order to resolve the name gitserver:

$HOME/.ssh/config

Host gitserver
   Hostname xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # IP or full name for gitserver
   User git
   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Actually, with such a file, you don't even have to specify the user:

git remote set-url origin gitserver:gitbtest

(You can see an example of that ~/.ssh/config file used in "git public key for more repositories")

Upvotes: 3

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