“did you run git update-server-info” error on a Github repository

Question

I\'m using the github Gui from their website to manage my repos, and I\'m getting the following error:

fatal: https://github.com/TeaCodie/TeaCodie-Website.gi         


        

Answer 1

This error could also happen if the repository you are attempting to reach was deleted.

Answer 2

In my case, I was trying to clone a private repository in our group Github account to me laptop:

Yuqians-MacBook-Air:regenerateSNID yuqianliu$ git clone https://github.com/nyusngroup/velocity_CCSNe.git
Cloning into 'velocity_CCSNe'...
fatal: https://github.com/nyusngroup/velocity_CCSNe.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?

I found two ways can solve this.

(1) Use http instead of https. It asks me the name and password of our group Github account. After I entered the information, I can clone it.

Yuqians-MacBook-Air:regenerateSNID yuqianliu$ git clone http://github.com/nyusngroup/velocity_CCSNe.git
Cloning into 'velocity_CCSNe'...
Username for 'http://github.com':nyusngroup
Password for 'http://nyusngroup@github.com': 

(2) Add my Github account to the collaborators of the private repository in our group Github account, as pointed by Monkey King's answer above.

Answer 3

I got the same problem while using a github repository, and connecting to it via https, while using the OS X Keychain Credential helper.

My problem was that I had the wrong credentials stored in OS X's Keychain (I was using the email address that I used to sign up for github.com rather than the [username]@github.com address it provides you). I deleted the old account in the keychain and only left the @github.com one and it fixed the problem.

Not sure if it is related, but when I checked the user.email local config:

git config -l

it showed the incorrect email address as well, so I updated the local git user.email to use the correct account too:

git config user.email <username>@github.com

Answer 4

In my repo's directory on my machine in the terminal I had to reset the origin url:

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:repoaccountname/repo-name.git

Answer 5

This error mostly caused by WRONG URL, please check:

• http or https
• URL Name
• username@git_url
• wrong git name

Answer 6

In my case I was using the wrong protocol in the repository URL (http instead of https)