git clone fails for Heroku project

git ssh heroku public-key
Morrowless picture Morrowless · Sep 5, 2011 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

(on Mac) I'm trying to clone my project from my new computer. I first generated the ssh key pairs:

heroku keys:add /Users/y/.ssh/heroku_rsa.pub

heroku keys shows:

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC...B9DjpXg3fb [email protected]

When I try to clone my project by git clone [email protected]:xyz.git

Cloning into xyz...
Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '50.19.85.132' to the list of known hosts.
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

This is strange.

EDIT: If I don't rename my pub key file then it works. Somehow heroku doesn't like renaming my keys.. in other words, use the deault id_rsa.pub name.

Answer

gstroup picture gstroup · Apr 13, 2012

I had a similar problem. At first, I did not have a key called id_rsa.pub. I only had a key for github: github_rsa.pub. I ran heroku keys and saw that it did recognize that I had a key. But apparently heroku does not like that github key. Here's what I did:

$ssh-keygen -t rsa
$heroku keys:clear
$heroku keys:add 
$git clone [email protected]:my-app.git -o heroku

This downloaded all the files for the project successfully.

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