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paperstreet7
paperstreet7

Reputation: 2188

Cannot clone git repository

My System is Windows 7. I downloaded git and Tortoise git. I know how to use git itself, but don't know how to set it up. I received repository info by email where I find an url to git repository through ssh protocol and also there is a text file containing rsa key. When I try to clone the remote repository to local folder it asks for password. But the people that gave me this info haven't provided me with a password.

What should I do? Ask them for a password or may be there is a way to generate it from this key in txt file?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 351

Answers (1)

ouah
ouah

Reputation: 145919

It asks for a password because it cannot find the private key. Check that you copied the private key in the correct place in your setup. Once the private key will be found by git it will perform public key authentication (instead of password authentication) and the password will not be asked.

Upvotes: 1

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