How to fix remote: GitLab: The project is archived and cannot be modified in Git

First, confirm the project's archived status:

1. Go to the project in GitLab's web interface
2. Look for an Archived badge near the project name
3. Or navigate to Settings > General > Advanced and check the archive status

If you see the archived badge or status, the project is in read-only mode and no Git operations that modify the repository will work.

If you're a contributor but not a project owner:

1. Contact the project owner or administrator
2. Explain why you need to push changes
3. Ask them to unarchive the project temporarily or permanently

Only users with Owner or Administrator role can unarchive a project. If the project was intentionally deprecated, consider forking it instead.

If you're a project owner or administrator:

1. Go to Your Projects and select the Inactive tab (archived projects are listed here)
2. Find and open your project
3. Navigate to Settings > General
4. Expand the Advanced section
5. Click Unarchive project

Alternatively, from any project list view, click the actions menu (three dots) next to the project and select Unarchive.

After unarchiving:
- Read-only restrictions are lifted immediately
- Scheduled CI/CD pipelines resume automatically
- Pull mirroring resumes automatically

If the project was archived as part of a group archive, you cannot unarchive it individually:

1. Navigate to the parent group settings
2. Go to Settings > General > Advanced
3. Click Unarchive group

This will unarchive all projects and subgroups within that group. You must have Owner or Administrator access to the group.

If the project is intentionally archived and should remain so, fork it:

1. Go to the archived project in GitLab
2. Click the Fork button (forking still works on archived projects)
3. Select your namespace for the fork
4. Push your changes to your forked repository

# Update your remote to point to the fork
git remote set-url origin [email protected]:your-username/forked-project.git

# Or add it as a new remote
git remote add myfork [email protected]:your-username/forked-project.git

# Push to your fork
git push myfork main

This lets you continue development without requiring changes to the original archived project.

If automated systems are failing due to archived projects:

1. Update pipeline configurations to target the correct (unarchived) repository
2. Or update the repository URL to point to a fork
3. Remove any triggers or schedules for archived projects

For GitLab CI/CD using multi-project pipelines:

# Update downstream project references
trigger:
  project: new-namespace/unarchived-project  # Updated path
  branch: main