That is how explosive demand growth works after all. They just aren’t keeping up with increasing capacity or rate limiting people

Unauthenticated fetches seem ok. Not sure what you mean about git checkout, it's purely local.

At least they have a very clear error message so you know what is going on.

> git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

Just rolled new keys and though I'm going crazy that it's not working

As of 2026-11-04T10:25:34Z the domain MicrosoftPleaseGiveGithubToGoogle.com is still unclaimed.

Genuine question: if you're hosting private repos, is self-hosting an option?

Gitea Enterprise would be worth looking at.

https://about.gitea.com/products/gitea-enterprise/

My deployments are tied to their container registry, so I'm equally screwed... Been thinking of going back to Dokku, I started working on a third wrapper around Dokku (yeah, I've literally done this twice already), and then self-host and self-provision... I honestly thinking seriously about this.

https is working still!

git -c credential.helper= -c 'credential.helper=!gh auth git-credential' pull https://github.com/myorg/my-repo.git

Prompting the wrong things is just a skill issue.