Cloning git repo causes error - Host key verification failed fatal The remote end hung up unexpectedly

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I am using SSH to clone a git repo to my web server  but every time I get this error   git clone git github com aleccunningham marjoram git Cloning into marjoram    Host key verification failed    I have tried almost everything that has shown up in Google searches  and I am dumbfounded on why this will not work  Any ideas   Also  I am not using anything like Jenkins

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Well  from sourceTree I couldn t resolve this issue but I created sshkey from bash and at least it works from git-bash   https   confluence atlassian com bitbucket set-up-an-ssh-key-728138079 html

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Resolved the issue    you need to add the ssh public key to your github account    Verify that the ssh keys have been setup correctly    Run ssh-keygen  Enter the password  keep the default path -    ssh id rsa   Add the public key     ssh id rsa pub  to github account  Try git clone  It works     Initial status  public key not added to git hub account    foo bn18-251    rm -rf test foo bn18-251    ls foo bn18-251    git clone git github com devendra-d-chavan test git Cloning into  test     Permission denied  publickey   fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly foo bn18-251        Now  add the public key    ssh id rsa pub to the github account  I used cat    ssh id rsa pub    foo bn18-251    ssh-keygen  Generating public private rsa key pair  Enter file in which to save the key   home foo  ssh id rsa    Created directory   home foo  ssh   Enter passphrase  empty for no passphrase    Enter same passphrase again   Your identification has been saved in  home foo  ssh id rsa  Your public key has been saved in  home foo  ssh id rsa pub  The key fingerprint is  xxxxx The key s randomart image is   --  RSA 2048 ----  xxxxx  -----------------  foo bn18-251    cat    ssh id rsa pub  xxxxx foo bn18-251    git clone git github com devendra-d-chavan test git Cloning into  test     The authenticity of host  github com  207 97 227 239   can t be established  RSA key fingerprint is 16 27 ac a5 76 28 2d 36 63 1b 56 4d eb df a6 48  Are you sure you want to continue connecting  yes no   yes Warning  Permanently added  github com 207 97 227 239   RSA  to the list of known hosts  Enter passphrase for key   home foo  ssh id rsa    warning  You appear to have cloned an empty repository  foo bn18-251    ls test foo bn18-251   test  git status   On branch master     Initial commit   nothing to commit  create copy files and use  git add  to track

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The issue could be that Github isn t present in your    ssh known hosts file   Append GitHub to the list of authorized hosts    ssh-keyscan -H github com  gt  gt     ssh known hosts

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I had the same issue  and the solution is very simple  just change to git bash from cmd or other windows command line tools  Windows sometimes does not work well with git npm dependencies

[git] Cloning git repo causes error - Host key verification failed. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

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