Cannot push to git repository - permission denied

Question

I have a following problem:

$ git push -u origin master
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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Answer 1

If you haven't already read it, you should look through the GitHub help page for this error:

Error: Permission denied (publickey)

Every time that I've had this problem, it was due to the last issue listed on that page: I didn't have the public key from my current workstation attached to my GitHub account. Of course, GitHub also provides instructions on how to attach your public key to your account.

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tl;dr

Make sure your current public key is attached to your GitHub account.