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

Question

I am using TortoiseGit on Windows. When I am trying to Clone from the context menu of the standard Windows Explorer, I get this error:

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

More precisely, the snapshot of terminal is the following:

git.exe clone --progress -v "git@arobotdev:\git\AlfaRobot.git" "C:\Work\AlfaRobot"

Cloning into 'C:\Work\AlfaRobot'...

Permission denied, please try again.

Permission denied, please try again.

Permission denied (publickey,password).

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights

and the repository exists. What should I do to make git work properly ?

Answer 1

Your git URL might have changed. Change the URL in the local directory by using the following command

for https protocol

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/username/repository.git

for ssh protocol

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:username/repository.git