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Why is Github asking for username/password when following the instructions on screen and pushing a new repo?

I'm the owner of an organization on github and just created a repo and tried pushing but I'm running into an issue where it's asking me for my username even though I can SSH just fine:

$ ssh -T [email protected]
Hi Celc! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
$ git add .
$ git commit -m 'first commit'
[master (root-commit) 3f1b963] first commit
 6 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore
 create mode 100644 main.js
 create mode 100644 package.json
 create mode 100644 readme.markdown
 create mode 100644 views/index.ejs
 create mode 100644 views/layout.ejs
$ git remote add origin https://github.com/WEMP/project-slideshow.git
$ git push -u origin master
Username for 'https://github.com':

What am I doing wrong? This has never happened to me before but I recently also upgraded to git 1.7.10.3.

Solution

  • Don't use HTTP use SSH instead

    change 

    https://github.com/WEMP/project-slideshow.git

    to 

    [email protected]:WEMP/project-slideshow.git

    you can do it in .git/config file