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

For me the root cause of getting the error was that no matter which version of git I was using on OSX, GIT was always picking up the credential.helper config of using osxkeychain from the file:

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/git-core/gitconfig

Getting rid of this solved the problem for me and has not broken anything.