Question

We want to get some private repositories from Github into our development server. This works:

ssh -vT [e-mail]

However

git clone 'ssh://github.com/company/repo -v' '/var/www/api/shared/vendor/'

doesn’t work. It gives a Permission denied (publickey) error.

I’m using Composer to download the repositories.

Any idea on why it’s not working?

Answer 1

You’re not specifying the git user in your git clone command, whereas you did in the ssh command.

git clone [e-mail]/company/repo

If you have trouble with this still, then you can set GIT_TRACE=1 and re-run the command to see exactly what it is doing. More likely, you’ll want to find an ssh command that fails and run it with the -v option to see why authentication is failing (wrong key, etc). Make sure you run both commands in the exact same environment.

More help is available at Github.