permission denied (publickey) Error using git on windows 7

Question

When I want to push to github with this command

git push origin master

I got this

Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The rem         


        

Answer 1

I'm a total newb with git and was following some installation instruction on a website and was getting the permission denied (publickey) error.

I followed the instructions to generate the RSA key pairs (ssh-keygen -t rsa). This worked fine but I was still getting the error. What I did not realize was that you have to actually go the the GIT website (github.com), register and enter that key on their website.

I hope this helps out another poor newb out there.

Cheers!