change git remote

[funderburkjim]

This is perhaps the only cdsl repository where it is convenient to push to github from the cologne server. However, for quite some time, a push fails with message which reads in part: remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021.

With Bing Chat's help, I found that this problem can be solved by changing the remote on the cologne server.

git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/csl-corrections.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/csl-corrections.git (push)

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:sanskrit-lexicon/csl-corrections.git
# check
git remote -v
origin  git@github.com:sanskrit-lexicon/csl-corrections.git (fetch)
origin  git@github.com:sanskrit-lexicon/csl-corrections.git (push)

Now pushes work.

WHY? Not sure why authentication works with the new remote url.

On local computer, the remote is of the https variety https://github.com/..., but still pushes work, at least within the git for windows terminal.

[gasyoun]

Other than @funderburkjim only @drdhaval2785 knows the magic?

[drdhaval2785]

I am not sure whether I know it fully well though.

[drdhaval2785]

Now I can claim that I know some things about how to use git on Cologne servers.