after an update my git clones failed with a permission denied.

λ git clone --no-checkout ssh://git@gitlab.com/your-user/your-project.git
Cloning into 'your-project'...
git@gitlab.com: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

i am not sure if its because of having installed putty in Program Files which have a space in it but the solution for
me was to create an environement variable named GIT_SSH_COMMAND with the value "C:\Program Files\Putty\plink.exe"
(you need the double quotes " in the value!).

after this cloning works again.

side tip: i use Rapid Environment Editor to modify my environement variables.

links:

• cover image by mintchipdesigns https://pixabay.com/photos/boy-facepalm-child-youth-666803/
• stackoverflow info https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35110079/git-bash-and-pageant-are-not-using-keys
• Rapid Environment Editor https://www.rapidee.com/en/about
• shell used https://cmder.net/