git clone hangs forever on github

Question

When I follow point 5 (Test everything out) in the github guide, the ssh command also hangs forever. According to the guide, I should be presented with a message that \"Gith

Answer 1

In my case port 22 was being blocked by a firewall, cloning via https may not work if you have 2-factor authentication enabled. Instead edit your .ssh config to use another port. In your terminal:

nano ~/.ssh/config

then add this:

Host github.com
  Hostname ssh.github.com
  Port 443