Git: Permission denied (publickey) fatal - Could not read from remote repository. while cloning Git repository

Question

I am unable to clone a Git repository, and getting this error:

krishna.soni@KRISHNACHANDRAS /c/Projects $ git clone http://stage.abc.com:10088/pqr
http://<         


        

Answer 1

I followed the steps detailed in Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent and

Auto-launching ssh-agent on Git for Windows.

In my case ~/.profile file was not present in my Windows. I had to create it, then added the script provided in the above link.