GitHub Error Message - Permission denied (publickey)

Question

Anybody seen this error and know what to do?

I\'m using the terminal, I\'m in the root, the GitHub repository exists and I don\'t know what to do now.

Answer 1

In case you are not accessing your own repository, or cloning inside a cloned repository (using some "git submodule... " commands):

In the home directory of your repository:

$ ls -a

1. Open ".gitmodules", and you will find something like this:

[submodule "XXX"]
    path = XXX
    url = git@github.com:YYY/XXX.git

Change the last line to be the HTTPS of the repository you need to pull:

[submodule "XXX"]
    path = XXX
    https://github.com/YYY/XXX.git

Save ".gitmodules", and run the command for submodules, and ".git" will be updated.

2. Open ".git", go to "config" file, and you will find something like this:

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    ignorecase = true
    precomposeunicode = true
[remote "origin"]
    url = https://github.com/YYY/XXX.git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master
[submodule "XXX"]
    url = git@github.com:YYY/XXX.git

Change the last line to be the HTTPS of the repository you need to pull:

    url = https://github.com/YYY/XXX.git

So, in this case, the main problem is simply with the url. HTTPS of any repository can be found now on top of the repository page.