running git clone against AWS CodeCommits gets me a 403 error

Question

My local laptop is a Mac.

1. The ssh key is configured properly. This is the content of ~/.ssh/config

   Host barthea Hostname git-codecommit.us-east

Answer 1

I solved it.

The 403 error message is a specifically Git error message. I added the two AWS-specified helper commands:

git config --global credential.helper '!aws --profile bruce666 codecommit credential-helper $@'
git config --global credentials.helper UseHttpPath=true

and that took care of the issue.

The .git/config file in your local directory (before you clone the Codecommit repo that you had just created should look like this:

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    ignorecase = true
    precomposeunicode = false
[credential]
    helper = !aws --profile bruce666 codecommit credential-helper $@
    UseHttpPath = true
[remote "origin"]
    url = https://git-codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v1/repos/barthea
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master

As specified in the .git/config file, you are cloning using https not ssh. I must not have used the default version of git that came with OSX because I did not run into any Toolchain issue.