Install git if you don't have it and verify version.
git --versiongit version 1.7.10.2 (Apple Git-33)
git config --global user.name "Uki D. Lucas"
git config --global user.email "uki@CyberWalkAbout.com"
Trying to "Clone" remote repository
$ git clone "ssh://git@xyz.xyz.com/xyz/xyz.git" .
Cloning into '.'...
Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '174.129.252.219' to the list of known hosts.
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Add your public key to the external git repository
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopyPaste it in a notepad:
ssh-rsa AAAAB..........
If you don't have, you can create your public key using command:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C ""
If you added your RSA key successfully, try clone again:
uki:git_test uki$ git clone "ssh://zzz@zz.zzz.com/zzz/zzzz.git" .
Cloning into '.'...
remote: Counting objects: 166, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (77/77), done.
remote: Total 166 (delta 51), reused 166 (delta 51)
Receiving objects: 100% (166/166), 375.74 KiB | 467 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (51/51), done.
uki:git_test uki$
Initialize Local Git Repo:
uki:~ uki$ cd /Users/uki/.../.../git/..._git_repo
uki:local_git_repo uki$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/uki/..._git_repo/.git/
For GitHub
curl -s -O http://github-media-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/osx/git-credential-osxkeychain
uki:~ uki$ which git
/usr/bin/git
sudo mv git-credential-osxkeychain /usr/local/git/bin/
git credential-osxkeychain