Assuming you've installed git with default settings on Windows 10, and you have your ssh keys in ~/.ssh (where ~ expands to something like C:/Users/user) as something like id_rsa and id_rsa.pub, you'll be unable to use the git bash to clone repos with git clone [email protected]:user/project.git. The git bash will always output some error log like
Cloning into 'project'...
\302\226\302\[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
stackoverflow answers suggest adding your key to ssh-agent and changing the SSH config for host github. The most annoying part of this issue is that even after you verify you've done the above 2 steps correctly and that ssh access to github works fine with ssh-agent -l and ssh [email protected], the problem still persists.
It just seems like the git bash is unable to clone repos using ssh directly using git clone for some reason. To clone a remote repo, I have to initialize an empty git repo, add remote as origin, and then pull, i.e.
mkdir project && cd project
git init
git remote add origin [email protected]:user/project.git
git pull origin master
Maybe I'm just missing something obvious but until then, I'm posting this gist to make sure I dont waste 1 hour of my life again the next time I encounter this problem.
I had the same problem, just closed the terminal, open a new one and carefully type 'git clone' and righ-click paste 'github url-ssh' and works smoothly.
@thscott's was right, tks a lot.