Error pushing to GitHub - insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database

Question

I\'m getting back an unusual error while trying to do a \"git push\" to my GitHub repository:

Counting objects: 8, done.
Delta compression using 2 threads.
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Answer 1

Check the repository: $ git remote -v

origin  ssh://git@example.com:2283/srv/git/repo.git (fetch)
origin  ssh://git@example.com:2283/srv/git/repo.git (push)

Note that there is a 'git@' substring here, it instructs git to authenticate as username 'git' on the remote server. If you omit this line, git will authenticate under different username, hence this error will occur.