Why doesn't my SSH key work for connecting to github?

Question

Note: I\'m not a newb, and I\'ve done this a gazillion times, but for some reason today it decided not to work.

I keep getting the Permission denied (publickey).

Answer 1

I was getting some weird line ending issue in Windows when copying the clone address from github.

Note the extra character before git. It was NOT appearing in my console. It was invisible.

git clone git@github.com:user/repo.git ./docker
Cloning into './docker'...
Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '140.82.XXX.X' to the list of known hosts.
\302\226git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

It took me a while to notice the \302\226 before git in the response. Once I saw that, I backspaced before git@ and made sure there was just a space there and it worked.