Re: Issues With Trying To Use Magit Mode For GitHub Repos Via SSH Key

[Samuel Banya]

I tried this:
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
url = https://github.com/SamuelBanya/SimpleSynth 
ssh://github.com/SamuelBanya/SimpleSynth.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/github/*
[branch "main"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/main

Yet, when I use 'p' and 'u' in Magit Mode, I get this error:

128 git … push -v origin main\:refs/heads/main
Pushing to https://github.com/SamuelBanya/SimpleSynth 
ssh://github.com/SamuelBanya/SimpleSynth.git
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/SamuelBanya/SimpleSynth 
ssh://github.com/SamuelBanya/SimpleSynth.git/': URL using bad/illegal format or 
missing URL

Any ideas on what to do in that case?

Thanks!

Sam

On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, at 7:25 PM, Leo Butler wrote:
> "Samuel Banya" <sbanya@fastmail.com> writes:
> 
> > ********************************************************
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> > ********************************************************
> >
> > Hey there,
> >
> > I'm trying to move all my personal Git repos back to GitHub.
> >
> > I am having a difficult time doing so since I'm getting some weird
> > side effects of either Git or Magit Mode acting weird.
> >
> > Here's what I did:
> > - I made a single repo on my GitHub that's blank
> > - I then cloned the repo locally on my machine
> > - I then added the contents of the older repo (minus the '.git' directory) 
> > to the the cloned directory
> > - I then added all of the new folders and files to that particular repo via 
> > 'Magit' mode in Emacs
> > - I then attempted to push a commit to that new GitHub repo
> > - I was then prompted for a 'Username' and 'Password', which kept
> > defaulting to using '@github.com' --> example: I would put 'Tom' -->
> > it would change to 'tom@github.com' for the username. This even
> > occurred even if I used the email I have for my GitHub account,
> > 'tom@mail.com' --> 'tom@mail.com@github.com'
> > - I did some research and apparently GitHub changed their
> > authentication methods to force either a Personal Access Token or
> > through an SSH key
> > - So, I simply added my SSH key to my GitHub account, specifically the 
> > 'public' key (id_rsa.pub)
> > - However I'm getting the same weird results as above
> >
> > I believe I have to modify the .git/config'* *file so that the 'url' is 
> > changed accordingly.
> >
> > However, I'm a bit confused on actually WHAT to put in there.
> >
> > Here's an example (not the actual line I used):
> > url = ssh://git@github.com:Tom/example.git
> 
> I don't think that url is right and that is causing your problem. My
> config for a repo has
> 
> [remote "github"]
> url = ssh://github.com/leo-butler/with_gensyms.git
> fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/github/*
> 
> 
> >
> > Also, I have this present in my ~/.ssh/config file as well:
> > Host github.com
> >   IdentitiesOnly yes
> >   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
> >
> > Any ideas on what I did wrong? 
> 
> I would make a special github key, but that is not causing your problem.
> 
> Leo
>