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Natasha McDiarmid
11,400 PointsCloning from GitHub
I'm new using GitHub. I'm trying to clone my first file from a users repo. I keep receiving this error:
````Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository
When I check to verify the public key is attached to my GitHub account, by using this command:
````ssh-add -1````
I get this error:
````The agent has no identities.
So I try adding this:
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
in which it tells me:
Identity added
I also ensured that my laptop's SSH key was added to my GitHub account. What steps am I missing?
I've scanned the internet – I'm lost.
2 Answers
Natasha McDiarmid
11,400 PointsI figured this out. I was cloning it incorrectly.
I was doing:
git clone [filepathhere]
When I needed to include my username, like this:
git clone [username@filepathhere]
Sander de Wijs
Courses Plus Student 22,267 PointsYou write that you have tried to clone a file from the remote repository. Is this what you tried do do exactly, or did you mean you wanted to clone the whole repo?
Normaly you would clone the entire repo, and start working on the desired files on your own PC. Maybe that's the reason for the error.
What command did you use to clone the remote repository?