After a long break of nearly 2 years, I tried to brush up my knowledge and wanted to started with Git. I created a bitbucket repo under my personal account, and setup the identities but no matter what, I was unable to clone the repo via ssh. I was getting the following error while trying to do it.

The error clearly stated it was a problem with my ssh key. I already checked and confirmed the following

1. I have added the SSH public key to the repo’s Access keys option.
2. I also tried to add it under Personal Settings -> Security -> SSH keys but both didn’t work
3. I confirmed the details are correct in git config –list
   
   
   [root@abc]# git config –list
   push.default=matching
   user.name=My Name
   user.email=myemail@gmail.com
   ssh.identity=/home/abc/.ssh/my_key.pem
   
4. Git clone works with https, so there is not problem with the repo, but the problem is with the ssh key
5. Next thing to try was to ssh to bitbucket in verbose mode to find the actual error
   
   
   [root@abc]#ssh -Tv git@bitbucket.org
   debug1: Reading configuration data /home/abc/.ssh/config
   debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
   debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
   debug1: Connecting to bitbucket.org [104.192.141.1] port 22.
   debug1: Connection established.
   debug1: identity file /home/abc/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
   
   
   From above, I understood it is trying to connect using the default id_rsa key and not the new ssh key “my_key”  which I wanted to use.
6. Below are the steps needed to correct this problem.
   
   
   [root@abc]# ssh-add -l
   2048 SHA256:q9/hCZVFR0gN+tV/iA0zDS4U9hth0PNRudIpd+72lnA abc@abc (RSA)

   Next add my new key to the ssh sgent
   [root@abc]# ssh-add /home/abc/.ssh/my_key.pem

   Confirm the new key is added
   [root@abc]# ssh-add -l
   2048 SHA256:ovtoXBGZVjxoS/v1wKA9K+reb7h0RkksTiHcnEsHgOE /home/abc/.ssh/my_key.pem (RSA)
   2048 SHA256:q9/hCZVFR0gN+tV/iA0zDS4U9hth0PNRudIpd+72lnA abc@abc (RSA)
   

7. Once that was done, everything worked perfectly!
   
   
   [root@abc]# git clone -b master git@bitbucket.org:myusername/magento2.3.git
   Cloning into ‘magento2.3’…
   remote: Counting objects: 3, done.
   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
   remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
   Receiving objects: 100% (3/3), done.
   Checking connectivity… done.