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pourmesomecode
pourmesomecode

Reputation: 4318

Git using wrong user when pushing to remote URL

So I have an old GitHub account that I don't use anymore, but I'm still using the same laptop so all the old config files pointing to my old git user are still there.

So I went to ~/.gitconfig and changed

[user]
        name = my_new_user
        email = [email protected]

however, whenever I'm in a project repo and I try to push I get this error

ERROR: Permission to my_new_user/gitrepo.git denied to my_old_user.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

So I've tried going into the local config file in my project. Changing the remote url from http://github/my_new_user/gitrepo.git to

url = git@github:my_new_user/gitrepo.git

But I'm still getting the same error.

I feel like I'm being stupid and missing something but I can't figure it out since the stuff I've already read suggest changing the remote origin url and mine doesn't seem to be working.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2947

Answers (1)

pourmesomecode
pourmesomecode

Reputation: 4318

Okay, incase someone comes across a similar issue here's what fixed it for me.

Within my local project .git/ and in the config file I had the url url = git@github:my_new_user/gitrepo.git

Which didn't work, I changed this to url = [email protected]_new_user:my_new_user/gitrepo_name

I can push to my repo fine now. I think what @gauteh mentioned in the comments above may be a better way to go down by setting a pushurl but I couldn't get it to work and came across the above which worked for me.

Link to changing git remote url article that I used for reference https://help.github.com/articles/changing-a-remote-s-url/

Upvotes: 2

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