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Cannot clone the Magento GitHub repository

Detail

Error is similar to the following:

Cloning into 'magento2'...
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Solution

Upload your SSH key to GitHub as discussed in the GitHub help page.

May 31st, 2019