About a week ago CircleCI started failing to checkout code from Github. This happened around the same time that I removed access to the github organisation for some developers who’ve since left the team. The error that’s being received during the code checkout step is the following: Cloning into '…

Hey Peter — looks like you already got an answer from us in a ticket, but for those who find this later, I’ll share our suggestions again! It’s likely the checkout SSH key got removed along with the developer accounts. Resetting webhooks, checkout keys, and deploy keys associated with the project w…

Hi Liene, Thanks for your quick response with this. I followed these instructions and eventually got things working again. However I lost an hour and a half trying to create new SSH keys for Circle to access Github and adding the fingerprint into the circle config file. What the instructions above…

Github code checkout suddenly failing

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anbitter January 15, 2021, 12:07pm 4

Thanks @peternixey for your comment regarding the autogeneration of deploy keys. I faced the same issue and it saved me a lot of time.

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Github code checkout suddenly failing

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