Cannot Push to My Github Private Repository

Git pushing to a private repo

Let us say 'yourWebApp' is the folder you have your local web app. Change it to the directory

cd 'yourWebApp'

Init git in the folder

git init

Now add your github url as a remote

git remote add origin git://github.com/somename/Web-App.git

Here origin is the short name for your url

Now pull the read me file from the github repo

 git pull origin master

Now push your web app to the github repository

git push origin master

Here it is assumed that you are in your master, the default branch

Here pulling your readme files is necessary to merge the readme file with your local work. If your github repository is empty, you can skip the pull and directly push to your github repository.

On the other hand, if you want to use clone, there is no need to init as clone automatically sets up git in the directory. clone also sets your remote git url. In that case, your workflow should be

 git clone https://github.com/path/to/your/repo
 make some changes
 git add your changes
 git commit your changes
 git push

Unable to push to github private repo

I was using iTerm and when I switched to the default Mac OS terminal it worked fine. Very strange. Thank you so much everyone for your kind help. Really appreciate it.

I created a private repo but I can't push to it from the terminal

You need to specify the protocol, like https:// or git://. Without the protocol, the URL refers to a file on your computer, which probably doesn't exist.

So for example,

git remote add origin https://github.com/my-user-name/XXXXXXX.git