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copied!<p>I searched for a while but I can't find a solution to my Problem.</p> <p>I have a Server I can connect to via ssh with the username <code>git</code> and a local git repository.<br> Now I want to push my local repository to a newly created one on the Server.</p> <p>Here is what I did:</p> <ul> <li>created a git repository in <code>/home/git/test.git</code></li> <li>initialized the repository as bare</li> <li>added the remote repository on the local machine<br> <code>git remote add test ssh://git@serverIp:/home/git/test.git</code></li> <li>now I executed the push command:<br> <code>git push test master</code></li> </ul> <blockquote> <p>I always get the </p> </blockquote> <pre><code>fatal: could not read from remote repository Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. </code></pre> <p>I am working on a local windows 7 machine and want to upload to a linux server.<br> I can log in via ssh with the <code>git</code> user. I also tried to do this as the <code>root</code> user(to get things to work once) with the same result.<br> I never get asked for the ssh <code>password</code>.</p> <p>I really don't know what I am doing wrong.<br> Before you call this a duplicate, I searched a lot for this problem and none seemed to talk about the same problem.</p> <p>update: </p> <p><ul> <li>"which git" returns /usr/bin/git</li> <li>PATH echo includes /usr/bin</li> <li>id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files are all set up and withput Passphrase</li> <li>ssh git@serverIp which git-receive-pack works too and returns /usr/bin/git-receive-pack</li> <li>ssh git@serverIp ls /home/git/test.git works</li> <li>all relevant directories are chmod 755</li> <li>git is owner of the repository</li> <li>auth.log file gets no new entries on tried push command</li> <li>GIT_TRACE=2 git push test master returns:</p> <blockquote> <p>'C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exe' '-batch' 'git@serverIp' 'git-receive-pack '\''/home/git/test.git'\''' fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.</li> </ul></p> </blockquote>

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