Who never had a coding test to do from a big company to be able to check out if you are able to code? I had to do that for a big company. My problem was that they send me a repository per email with all git and github already initialized. Meaning I was not able to send it out to my own repository on Github and show to the world what I was able to do.

I will show you how to do change that, and don’t worry it’s really simple.

1- What is my problem

When I was on my folder and tried to push it to my repository on Github with the command git push origin master I got the response

$ git push origin master
ssh: connect to host git.rea*** port 22: Operation timed out
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

This meant that my folder was still connected to the previous owner.

2- How to check that?

To check the owner of the repository simple check it out with this command
$ git remote -v

here is my result:

origin  git@git.rea***:recruiting/toy-robot.git (fetch)
origin  git@git.rea***:recruiting/toy-robot.git (push)

3- how to fix this?

3-1 Trouble to fix it!

I tried to fix it by simple adding my repo on the remote like this:

$ git remote set-url origin git@github.com:JodyVanden/toyrobot.git

$ git remote -v
origin  git@github.com:JodyVanden/toyrobot.git (fetch)
origin  git@github.com:JodyVanden/toyrobot.git (push)

Then I created the repository on Github with
$ hub create

but this did not really worked out for me with an error:

$ git push origin master
ERROR: Repository not found.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

3-2 How I did to fix it

I finally found out that I had to remove the previous remote with this command line:
$ git remove rm origin

and then add my remote with creating a folder on github
hub create

You can then double check if everything is ok
$ git remote -v

$ git remote -v
origin  git@github.com:JodyVanden/toyrobot.git (fetch)
origin  git@github.com:JodyVanden/toyrobot.git (push)

Everything is looking good.

I just need to push it to my Github with
git push origin master

Counting objects: 375, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (333/333), done.
Writing objects: 100% (375/375), 39.99 KiB | 356.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 375 (delta 140), reused 21 (delta 5)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (140/140), done.
To github.com:JodyVanden/toy-robot.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master
Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.

some links where I found the infos: Stackoverflow / Stackoverflow 2 / Githubhelp