I am getting 500 error on git clone

Question

I am unable to clone a newly created repository. I am getting below error.

$ git clone https://github.xxxxx.com/zzzzzz.git
Cloning into 'zzzzzz'...
Username for 'https://github.xxxxxx.com': yyyyy
Password for 'https://[email protected]':
remote: Internal Server Error.
remote:
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.xxxxxx.com/zzzzz.git/': The requested URL returned error: 500

I have successfully generated ssh keys and updated the key in github settings as per the instructions in the below URL

https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys/

authentication was success when I executed the command: git -T [email protected]

Also as per my understanding if we setup the ssh the git clone command should not ask for username and password. But it still asking for them.

debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
Authenticated to github.xxxxx.com ([10.28.22.44]:22).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Entering interactive session.
Hi xxxx! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access. 
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
Transferred: sent 3880, received 1696 bytes, in 0.2 seconds
Bytes per second: sent 19132.2, received 8363.0
debug1: Exit status 1

Answer 1

This is most probably a problem with GitHub service. I recommend contacting them and explain what the problem is.

This is how Wikipedia explains the 500 response code:

500 Internal Server Error

A generic error message, given when an unexpected condition was encountered and no more specific message is suitable.

Basically, something went wrong on the GitHub endpoint.

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But, since you already have set your SSH keys, you can use the ssh url to clone your repository:

git clone [email protected]:owner/repo.git