Heroku 'Permission denied (publickey) fatal: Could not read from remote repository' woes

Question

I\'ve searched around for many hours on end looking to a solution to my seemingly easy-to-fix problem. It\'s not that my search turned up nothing, it\'s that my search turne

Answer 1

I had a similar heroku ssh error that I could not resolve.

As a workaround, I used the new heroku http-git feature (http transport for "heroku" remote instead of ssh). Details here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/http-git

(Short version: if you have a project already setup the standard way, run heroku git:remote --http-init to change "heroku" remote to http.)

A good quick work around if you don't have time to fix/troubleshoot an ssh issue.