Git: Permission denied (publickey) fatal - Could not read from remote repository. while cloning Git repository

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KCS picture KCS · Jan 21, 2014 · Viewed 473.9k times · Source

I am unable to clone a Git repository, and getting this error:

krishna.soni@KRISHNACHANDRAS /c/Projects $ git clone http://stage.abc.com:10088/pqr
http://<url>/<repository> Cloning into '<repository>'... fatal: could not read Username for 'http://<url>': No such file or directory

I've read Bitbucket, Windows and “fatal: could not read Password for”, but still have the problem.

I proceeded further but am now getting this error

sh.exe": chown: command not found

krishna.soni@KRISHNACHANDRAS /c
$ git clone ssh://[email protected].
/projects
Cloning into 'C:/projects'...
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

> krishna.soni@KRISHNACHANDRAS /c
>     $ git clone ssh:<url>
>     ts
>     Cloning into 'C:/projects'...
>     Permission denied (publickey).
>     fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights

and the repository exists.

Answer

Arjan picture Arjan · Oct 12, 2015

For people that come here that are just trying to get the repository but don't care about the protocol (ssh / https), you might just want to use https instead of ssh (if it's supported).

So for example you use 

git clone https://github.com/%REPOSITORYFOLDER%/%REPOSITORYNAME%.git

instead of

git clone [email protected]:%REPOSITORYFOLDER%/%REPOSITORYNAME%.git

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