Git error: “Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists”

Question

I am using TortoiseGit on Windows. When I am trying to Clone from the context menu of the standard Windows Explorer, I get this error:

Please make sur

Answer 1

I experienced this issue when I had an invalid RSA SSH key, and a valid ED25519 SSH key on my machine. I believe Gitlab was checking the RSA key, failing and stopping there before checking the ED25519 key.

I fixed this by deleting both of the keys I had on my device and generating a new RSA SSH, and providing that too gitlab.