Github error for syncing with mac

Question

I use github for the mac app http://desktop.github.com/ and every time I try to sync the branch I get A network error occurred. We could not sync with the server. A network error occurred. We could not sync with the server. Everything was working fine before, and my machine, another machine can work fine with the same application. I am not sure how to debug this problem.

Answer 1

Found Out Why just received this email from github, Crazy.

A security vulnerability has recently been discovered that allowed an attacker to add new SSH keys to arbitrary GitHub user accounts. This would provide an attacker with a clone / push access to the repositories with read permissions, and a clone / pull / push access to the repositories with write permissions. As of 5:53 p.m. UTC on Sunday, March 4, the vulnerability no longer exists.

Until any known malicious activity has been reported, we take extra precautions by forcing an audit of all existing SSH keys.

Mandatory action

Since you have one or more SSH keys associated with your GitHub account you should visit https://github.com/settings/ssh/audit to approve every valid SSH key.

Unless you have approved SSH keys, you cannot clone / pull / push your SSH repositories.

condition

We take security seriously and acknowledge that this should never have happened. In addition to a full code audit, we have taken the following measures to increase the security of your account:

• We force auditing of all existing SSH keys
• Adding a new SSH key now asks for your password
• Now we will send you an email when a new SSH key is added to your account.
• Now you have access to the account change log on the account settings page Regards, GitHub team.

--- https://github.com [e-mail]

Answer 2

I just solved the same problem on my repo. I first cloned the repo in the terminal using git://github.com/djs070/reservedpaths before switching to the Github client for Mac. I went into the repo settings on Github for Mac and changed the primary remote storage setting to [e-mail] :djs070/reservedpaths.git format, and then was able to synchronize with remote devices without any problems.