gits error on push Empty reply from server

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I have been trying to push new changes to my existing repo, however, I am keep getting the following error:

-MacBook-Pro:spa $ git push origin master Username for XX Password for fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/XXXX/': Empty reply from server

I have even tried with the new repo but the result is same.

Can you check the origin remote of your repo and paste the info? `git remote -v` — Kangcor, Feb 06 '15 at 10:52
origin https://github.com//XXXX.git (fetch) origin https://github.com//XXXX.git (push) — codebased, Feb 06 '15 at 10:57
Please note that I can easily clone any repo but I cannot push even though my auth is matching. — codebased, Feb 06 '15 at 10:59
Try to clone the project in another path, make some changes and push that new commit. I think that something gone wrong where you clone your repo — Kangcor, Feb 06 '15 at 11:08
Same result; it seems to do with machine probably, I am on mac pro Yosemite 10.10.1 (14B25) — codebased, Feb 06 '15 at 11:26
You can clone any repo, right, but you can push in any other repo? If you can't thats a problem with git and/or your machine, yes — Kangcor, Feb 06 '15 at 11:29
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/70380/discussion-between-kangcor-and-codebased). — Kangcor, Feb 06 '15 at 11:32

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 06 '15 at 12:16

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grr...

The problem got fixed after restarting my Mac computer.

answered Feb 06 '15 at 12:16

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score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 05 '17 at 11:42

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Maybe mine was another problem but the same output: "Empty reply from server". I resolved it by doing

git fetch origin --prune

After that, push was successful.

answered Apr 05 '17 at 11:42

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 10 '17 at 09:46

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You can restart you computer, or else restart your local server.

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answered Dec 05 '15 at 17:00

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The same problem happened to me today on OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 with git version 2.5.4 (Apple Git-61) trying git push to bitbucket. Just restarted computer and the error is gone. Any ideas what's the nature of this bug? – Anton Malyshev Aug 05 '16 at 14:45

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 17 '16 at 11:36

I had a similar problem with Git. I figured it was a problem pertaining to Git Credentials managed by Windows.

Here's what I tried step by step

Restarting my computer
Restarting my network device
Deleting credentials from credential manager on windows' control panel
Redefining Remote URL by using

git remote set-url

When I tried pushing after these steps, windows asked for new credentials. I entered my Github/whatever service's username and password and the push was successful.

Here's what I think happened. When you don't add credentials manually, Windows stores the credentials in a temporary cache when you make a repository for the first time. Unfortunately this temporary cache is lost after some time, thus the credentials for logging onto your remote Git are lost. Adding them manually once should solve the problem for good.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 18 '19 at 13:04

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Answered here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/27352176/4402501

In short:

Add ssh-key to your github repository (instructions here).
Switch your remote URL from HTTPS to SSH (instructions here).
Push it like it's hot.

answered Nov 18 '19 at 13:04

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 23 '20 at 19:58

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I just delete the saved hosts(related to GitHub) in ~/.ssh/known_hosts. Open a new terminal, this issue disappeared.

answered Dec 23 '20 at 19:58

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Jeyson Mg · Answer 7 · 2021-04-19T23:39:13.657

I'm a Windows user and I was having the same issue after connecting to another wifi and then connect back in my house.

I checked for my remote with this command

git remote -v

and everything seems ok, so it was not an issue with the remote. Then I finally figured it out how to make it work, this is what I did to solve it:

Restart my computer
Unplug and plug back my router so it restart ( not reset factory )

After that i tried again

git push origin myBranchName

exactly the same way before but now it worked !!!

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jul 09 '21 at 02:38

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I have the same problem in Centos:

only when running the script
terminal execution is normal
use git:// instead of https:// for git clone, this worked for me

answered Jul 09 '21 at 02:38

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Apr 04 '22 at 08:30

I don't know if this will help people.

But whenever this happens to me, it is usually fixed when I remove the credentials for the git repository/account from the Credential Manager (Windows).

After you remove the credentials, git will prompt you to re-authenticate yourself, either by an account or by a personal access token.

No restart required.

I do not have experience with MacOS or Linux but I'm sure there must be similar locations that cache/store these credentials.

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