Capistrano and GitHub Private Repo – Permission denied (publickey)

Question

I\'ve inherited a Rails project, hosted on Linode.

The previous developer was using a BitBucket repository, along with Capistrano for deployments.

I\'ve since

Answer 1

Similarly I could SSH from dev machine to the staging machine and also SSH from staging machine to github.com.

However cap deploy failed doing the git clone

Permission denied (publickey).

however the git ls-remote worked which is strange.

If I added this to my config on the staging machine it works

Host github.com 
    Hostname github.com 
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/git 
    User git