SSL error while trying to push to github

Question

This is a REPO I just created (my first one) so I might have set it up wrongly.
When I try to PUSH the code from my machine to the REPO on GIT, I get:

error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed while accessing https://github.com/itay-moav/OmegaSupreme.git/info/refs

What am I doing wrong, am I missing a setup step?

Answer 1

The bad solution would be:

git config --global http.sslVerify false

The right solution would be to add the root certificates (you can see an example here).
That being said, using a Git distribution like msysgit on Windows, or GitHub for Windows (or GitHub for Mac) would avoid that, since it would use cert file with the right certificates already installed.
Msysgit, for instance, references its own - complete - bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt file, with the right CAs already in it. See "Unable to access github via curl".