Problems cloning a repository on github for a college project

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I've been trying to clone a template for a project the we are ment to fork and download through cmd and I followed all the instructions for setting this up but now when I try on my laptop I it wont let me access it? I get the following error:

Cloning into 'ionic-assignment'...
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 02 '15 at 19:28

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From my experience this probably means you are using ssh and haven't set up ssh keys. Here is an explanation of what that is: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Generating-Your-SSH-Public-Key

If you are using GitHub or BitBucket, this process is very straightforward.

GitHub: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys/

answered Apr 02 '15 at 19:28

Phillip Martin

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Thank you! Also one more question, is there a difference between using the cmd and using Git Bash? – conor tighe. Apr 02 '15 at 21:08
The commands would be fairly different between cmd and Git Bash. Do you have a reason to use one of them specifically? – Phillip Martin Apr 02 '15 at 21:26

Problems cloning a repository on github for a college project

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