Why does Git not recognize origin and how can I correct this to update the remote.origin.url with a-CodePudding

I have a private remote repository on GitHub that I'm trying to push to production on our AWS server (using Ubuntu). I've tried the following commands and received the following errors:

sudo git pull

remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.
remote: Please see https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-operations/ for more information.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/projectrepo/projectname.git/'


sudo git remote -v 

origin  https://project_username:[email protected]/projectrepo/projectname.git (fetch)
origin  https://project_username:[email protected]/projectrepo/projectname.git (push)


sudo git remote rm origin 

fatal: No such remote: 'origin'


sudo git config --list 

user.name=project_username
remote.origin.url=https://project_username:[email protected]/projectrepo/projectname.git
core.repositoryformatversion=0
core.filemode=true
core.bare=false
core.logallrefupdates=true


sudo git remote set-url origin https://project_username:[email protected]/projectrepo/projectname.git

fatal: No such remote 'origin'

Why does Git not recognize origin and how can I correct this to update the remote.origin.url?

CodePudding user response：

You removed origin with

git remote rm origin

So no wonder it doesn't exist anymore and you can't do anything with it. You can add it back by:

git remote add origin [address]

The original error says that you shouldn't use HTTPS with Basic Auth. You should either generate a personal token and put it into URL or use ssh address (and use public-key auth):

remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.
remote: Please see https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-operations/ for more information.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/projectrepo/projectname.git/'

CodePudding user response：

Figured out the answer: I realized the issue was that the remote.origin.url was set globally with OLD_PASSWORD but locally as NEW_PERSONAL_TOKEN.

This is what worked: Using sudo git config --global --edit to edit the global config file directly.