Clone A Private Repository (Github)

I have a private repository on Github for a project I'm working on. Until now I had only worked on my home desktop, but I just bought a laptop, and am trying to set it up so that I can work on the project from either computer, and push / pull changes.

I added a new SSH key to my Github account for the laptop, and was successful in cloning and making changes to a public test repo that I set up. However, I couldn't clone the private repo. Is there anything special I need to do in the command line in order to clone a private repo? Do I need to set up a new GitHub account for my laptop and set myself up as a collaborator?

The command I used was git clone git://github.com/username/reponame.git

This worked for me:

git clone https://[email protected]/username/repo_name

Private clone URLs take the form [email protected]:username/repo.git - perhaps you needed to use git@ rather than git://?

git:// URLs are read only, and it looks like private repos do not allow this form of access.

I have met this issue several times and every time I landed on this page, tried every thing and failed!

It's because I have 2FA enabled!!!

According to https://help.github.com/articles/which-remote-url-should-i-use/#when-2fa-is-enabled

If you have enabled two-factor authentication, or if you are accessing an organization that uses SAML single sign-on, you must provide a personal access token instead of entering your password for HTTPS Git.

1. Follow this link and create an access token
2. git clone https://github.com/username/repo_name.git (The default git repo link is good enough!)
3. Enter your username and use the access token as password!!

Update:

• If you don't mind exposing your access token in the command line, you can also paste the access token as username then hit enter enter (no need for password).
• Hate copy&pasting the access token over and over again?
  Use git config credential.helper store (don't do this on machine you don't trust)

This worked for me:

git clone https://username:[email protected]/username/repo_name.git