Pushing a branch to a remote server fails

Question

I have a project which uses Git on a remote server. I installed SourceTree for Mac to manage it. I also have a .ssh folder with the private in the root directory where I keep all my projects and the public key is in the server.

I was able to clone the project successfully and even commit+push it back with no problem. Then I ceated a branch in my local repo, added a new file and tried commit+push it. It was committed but the pushing failed with the following error message.

Pushing to git@gitserver:gitbtest

ssh: Could not resolve hostname gitserver: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

I'm not sure why this is happening. Is there a way to set SSH keys in SourceTree for Mac? I can't seem to find any option to do so.

Any help to resolve this would be great.

Thank you!

Did you change anything between the time you successfully pushed from your repo/master and the time you are pushing from your branch? — VonC, Jul 21 '14 at 06:13
After testing pushing from the master, I just created a branch, added a new file to it and tried pushing it to the server. That's when this problem occurred. — Isuru, Jul 21 '14 at 06:28
No, I only have these 3 files in the .ssh folder. id_rsa, id_rsa.pub, known_hosts — Isuru, Jul 21 '14 at 06:40

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

An url like git@gitserver:gitbtest can only work if one have an ssh config file in order to resolve the name gitserver:

$HOME/.ssh/config

Host gitserver
   Hostname xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # IP or full name for gitserver
   User git
   IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Actually, with such a file, you don't even have to specify the user:

git remote set-url origin gitserver:gitbtest

(You can see an example of that ~/.ssh/config file used in "git public key for more repositories")

Pushing a branch to a remote server fails

1 Answers1