Exercise 2: link to GitHub

[Sonia-Heye]

In step 6.2 Sharing our git repository: Github I cannot push to git as I get the errors:
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

I am using the updated path to my created GitHub repo: git@github.com:Sonia-Heye/pizza_course_reproducibility.git and did NOT add a readme / gitignore etc and kept the repository public (initially I tried this step using a private repo and thought this was the issue, but after re-doing a public version, the issue persists). Any ideas why the permissions could be denied?

[JingDeng92]

Do you check if your user account in "git" match with your github account? I came across a similar error. And I found out the "git" use an account different from my github account where I plan to share the repo. After changing to the same account, then it works.

[Sonia-Heye]

Hey,
Thanks for your tip! Changing the user name didn't work for me and I'm not entirely sure which action fixed my issue in the end, but I think it was this:
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/<user_name>/<repo_name>.git - instead of: git remote add origin.
I then had to authorize the access on GitHub and I guess this set up a connection between my local git and my GitHub account and thereafter git push -u origin main worked for me too.