Permission denied error on Github Push

• click fork button on original github project page
• clone your forked repository instead original
• push to it
• press Pull Requests button on your repository
• create it
• wait for original author to accept it

I used to have the same error when i change my user email by git config --global user.email and found my solution here: Go to: Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Manage your credentials -> Windows Credentials

Under Generic Credentials there are some credentials related to Github, Click on them and click "Remove".

and when you try to push something, you need to login again. hope this will be helpful for you

In could able to resolve this issue with giving username and password in below url.

Please replace username and password with your Github credentials:

git remote set-url origin https://<username>:<password>@github.com/<username>/FirstRepository.git

For some reason my push and pull origin was changed to HTTPS-url in stead of SSH-url (probably a copy-paste error on my end), but trying to push would give me the following error after trying to login:

Username for 'https://github.com': xxx
Password for 'https://[email protected]': 
remote: Invalid username or password.

Updating the remote origin with the SSH url, solved the problem:

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:<username>/<repo>.git

Hope this helps!

See the github help on cloning URL. With HTTPS, if you are not authorized to push, you would basically have a read-only access. So yes, you need to ask the author to give you permission.

If the author doesn't give you permission, you can always fork (clone) his repository and work on your own. Once you made a nice and tested feature, you can then send a pull request to the original author.