How to fix 'The namespace you were looking for could not be found.' problem with Git
Problem
Today, all of a sudden, my git push stopped working.
Such an error was occurring with every attempt:
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remote:
remote: ========================================================================
remote:
remote: The namespace you were looking for could not be found.
remote:
remote: ========================================================================
remote:
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
It was strange, as I didn’t change anything neither in git config, nor in any other configurations.
After executing ssh -T git@{gitlab-url} I was receiving the proper response of Welcome to GitLab, @username!
I could also make git pull and everything worked.
The one thing I couldn’t do was git push (or here: git push -u origin branch-name)
Elementary troubleshooting like checking VPN, restarting IntelliJ, using different terminal(s), restarting PC didn’t help, neither StackOverflow solutions.
Solution
I made a new git clone of repository and compared .git/config file.
There was one notable difference:
(Note: {variables} was redacted, replace them with your ones)
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[remote "origin"]
url = git@{gitlab-url}:{namespace}/{repository-name}.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
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[remote "origin"]
url = git@{gitlab-url}:{username}/{namespace}/{repository-name}.git
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
pushurl = git@{gitlab-url}:{username}/{namespace}/{repository-name}.gitgitlab-ci-token:@git@{gitlab-url}:{namespace}/{repository-name}.git
I don’t know how this pushurl was set, probably due some refactoring etc.
Nevertheless, it was the culprit.
To fix this I just replaced contents of [remote "origin"] in old file using the ones copied from the new file - and that’s all.