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Error setting certificate verify locations - Github

I am having problem accessing github repository through Git Bash.

2 days ago I was able to push/pull the repositories. Then

1) I created an account on gitlab.com

2) I generated ssh key on my local pc following GitLab and SSH keys using git bash on windows

3) After this I did not create/pull/push any repository on gitlab.

Today I make few changes in a code (that is deployed on github), when I try to push that code I get following error

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/junaidbinsarfraz/repo.git/': error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: E:/Softwares/Git/mingw64/libexec/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
  CApath: none

There is no ssl folder in libexec

libexec folder

Also no file/folder changed in Git folder since Jan 2017

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It seems like git-bash issue, not sure. Can anyone help ?

Solution

  • First, creating ssh keys won't help for an HTTPS url.
    Keep those keys, but if you want to use them, you would need to put existing ssh keys to your github account then

     cd /path/to/your/repo
 git remote set-url origin [email protected]:junaidbinsarfraz/repo.git
 git push

    Second, regarding the cert error, try to push from a simple CMD, using a simplified PATH as I do here, with said PATH referencing the very latest Git for Windows.
    For that, uncompress PortableGit-2.16.1-64-bit.7z.exe anywhere you want.