Question about permissions for django.git

Christopher Keith

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Oct 31, 2020, 1:31:44 PM10/31/20

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Folks -

I am following the instructions from https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/writing-code/working-with-git/ .

However, when I try to 'git fetch' the source repo, I get 'Permission denied'

PS C:\Users\chris\Documents\Github> git clone https://github.com/chrisxkeith/django.git
Cloning into 'django'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
remote: Total 465879 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 465878
Receiving objects: 100% (465879/465879), 197.61 MiB | 3.93 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (339992/339992), done.
Updating files: 100% (6412/6412), done.
PS C:\Users\chris\Documents\Github> cd django
PS C:\Users\chris\Documents\Github\django> git remote add upstream g...@github.com:django/django.git
PS C:\Users\chris\Documents\Github\django> git fetch upstream
g...@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 have tried this on Linux Mint also, and get the same error. Do I need to be added to some permissions list?

Thanks in advance for any help.

- Chris

Kasper Laudrup

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Oct 31, 2020, 1:39:44 PM10/31/20

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Hi Chris,

On 31/10/2020 17.02, Christopher Keith wrote:
> Folks -
>
> I am following the instructions from
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/writing-code/working-with-git/
> .
>
> However, when I try to 'git fetch' the source repo, I get 'Permission
> denied'
>
> PS C:\Users\chris\Documents\Github> git clone
> https://github.com/chrisxkeith/django.git

Here you are using an https URL (https://github.com/chrisxkeith/django.git)

> g...@github.com:django/django.git
> PS C:\Users\chris\Documents\Github\django> git fetch upstream
> g...@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Here you are using a "git" URL (g...@github.com:django/django.git).

Instead of:

# git remote add upstream g...@github.com:django/django.git

Try:

# git remote add upstream https://github.com/django/django.git

Or something similar.

Hope you see the difference.

Kind regards,

Kasper Laudrup

Christopher Keith

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Oct 31, 2020, 2:24:34 PM10/31/20

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Hey Kasper-

Many thanks! Tried your suggestion and it works.

Does this mean that my specific git configuration is such that the 'git' URL will not work? If so, it is possible that https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/writing-code/working-with-git/ could be updated to show both ways of setting up the remote?