I am trying to push to my remote repository on Github, but I keep receiving the following error (from VS Code, same error in Github Desktop):

> git push -u origin main
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/<user>/<deleted-repository>/' not found

The error says the repository is not found, which is true because it has been deleted.

After using:

$ git remote add origin https://github.com/<user>/<new-existing-repository.git>

My remotes currently look like:

git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/<user>/<deleted-repository.git> (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/<user>/<deleted-repository.git> (push)
origin  https://github.com/<user>/<new-existing-repository.git> (push)

I have tried:

git remote remove origin

which removes the new remote. I have also tried

git remote remove <https://github.com/<user>/<deleted-repository.git>

Neither works.

I also have noticed that for my new remote I only have "(push)", whereas the other one has both "(fetch)" and "(push)".

Edit:

I removed the new remote and tried the following:

$ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/<user>/<deleted-repository.git> (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/<user>/<deleted-repository.git> (push)

$ git remote remove origin
fatal: No such remote: 'origin'

$ git remote set-url --delete origin https://github.com/<user>/<deleted-repository.git>
fatal: No such remote 'origin'

$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/<user>/<new-existing-repository.git>
fatal: No such remote 'origin'

Any insight into this issue would be greatly appreciated!

CodePudding user response：

Say

git remote set-url --delete origin https://github.com/<user>/<deleted-repository.git>

That will delete the deleted origin.

But I would also suggest that you delete the other origin too and start over. You evidently added the second origin in an incorrect manner.

CodePudding user response：

Try this

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/<user>/<new-existing-repository.git>

it should remove old url and will add new one.