Git push: "fatal 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository - fatal Could not read from remote repository."

First, check that your origin is set by running

git remote -v

This should show you all of the push / fetch remotes for the project.

If this returns with no output, skip to last code block.

Verify remote name / address

If this returns showing that you have remotes set, check that the name of the remote matches the remote you are using in your commands.

$git remote -v
myOrigin ssh://[email protected]:1234/myRepo.git (fetch)
myOrigin ssh://[email protected]:1234/myRepo.git (push)

# this will fail because `origin` is not set
$git push origin master

# you need to use
$git push myOrigin master

If you want to rename the remote or change the remote's URL, you'll want to first remove the old remote, and then add the correct one.

Remove the old remote

$git remote remove myOrigin

Add missing remote

You can then add in the proper remote using

$git remote add origin ssh://[email protected]:1234/myRepo.git

# this will now work as expected
$git push origin master

As Matt Clark stated above

However, origin might not be set, so skip the deleting step and simply attempting to add can clear this up.

git remote add origin <"clone">

Where "clone" is simply going into your GitHub repo and copying the "HTTPS clone URL" and pasting into GitBash

It works for me.

git remote add origin https://github.com/repo.git
git push origin master

add the repository URL to the origin in the local working directory