ssh authentication works, but git doesn't

Question

I am using cygwin on Windows 10.

When using ssh [e-mail] ssh correctly loads my id_rsa, asks me for the passphrase and then authenticates me on the server.

However, when I try to git push ssh://[e-mail]/~/repo.git, I get this error:

Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

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

Doesn't git use the ssh mechanism and should therefore successfully authenticate me as well?

Answer 1

It looks like you have a wrong path to your repository. I would guess that it is:

git push ssh://[e-mail]/repo.git

But you should verify that (if you have shell access) with

ssh [e-mail] ls -l ~/repo.git

or

ssh [e-mail] ls -l repo.git

The other possibility is that you have read-only access to that repository.