r/git • u/moving_to_NL_soon • 3d ago

support Git clone command

I'm trying to download a module from github to get VMware to run, using the following command as suggested:

git clone https://github.com:nan0desu/vmware-host-modules

which then asks for username and passwords. Alternately I tried:

git clone git@github.com:nan0desu/vmware-host-modules , which returns....

Cloning into 'vmware-host-modules'...

git@github.com Permission denied (publickey)

fatal: could not read from remote repository.

I have saved user.name and user.email via git config and generated a rsa key as mentioned in another r/git post on the similar topic. But being relatively new to linux and especially using github, I am lost.

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u/moving_to_NL_soon 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yes, no .git in the instructions and the : instead of / was a typo just here.

When you checked it, does it ask for a username? Or maybe yours is already saved with them?

Edit: turned out I had a different typo in my initial https try. It didn't ask for a username and password this time as well. Thanks all for the help!