Git SSH authentication fails on Windows

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every time I tried to clone or pull from a remote Git repository over SSH on Windows, I got hit with this:

PS C:\Development\Forgejo> git clone ssh://git@forgejo.blazilla.de/patrick/Dotfiles.git Dotfiles
Cloning into 'Dotfiles'...
git@forgejo.blazilla.de: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

The obvious suspects were all clear: The SSH key was registered in both Codeberg and my self-hosted Forgejo instance. The key was loaded in the SSH agent, confirmed via:

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Git SSH authentication fails on Windows