Hi, I wish to gitclone my app using email/password (not using SSH key). Do I need to key in anything in the textbox at “view history/git access”? I tried many times but doesn’t work. Do I need to set something at my desktop? Thank you very much!
I see. I am having a lot of issues with SSH as I have no experience with it and have spent a lot of time to read the forums to try understand the process. if it helps, I am on windows platform.
I use the command ‘ssh-keygen’ to generate a key then I pasted in the entire contents of the public key into the git access dialog box but still had error “Unable to negotiate with 52.56.203.177 port 2222: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa”
Is there any way to download a zip, just like in github? thanks for your help. I appreciate it.
Your SSH public key should start with the type of key, e.g.:
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc...
It sounds like yours may not?
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Thanks for reply. Yes, it starts with "ssh-rsa AAAAB3N … and it’s rather long, about 8 lines. The last line Is that normal? If you or anyone has a link to something like ssh for dummies, I’ll be happy to go read up more about it too. Many thanks to Owen and jshaffstall for your kind help. SSH noob here. 
Yes, it should be about 8 lines (technically it’s one really long line that wraps to about 8). It should end with an email address or other identifier.
I’m definitely not an SSH expert, but have been lucky and had things just work after I pasted my public key in. If your public key looks like all the parts are there (the ssh-rsa prefix and the trailing identifier, that’s about the limit of what I know to check.
Do make sure that it’s pasting as all one line, too.
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Thanks jshaffstall, I’ll give it another try.
It’s explained in the docs:
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Thanks Owen! That’s the approach I’m taking now because I can’t get the SSH thing to work. So right now I “pip installed anvil server”, then “create-anvil-app hello-world myFolderName” to create a template app that I can modify with my own code. The template app works, which is great! Now I am copying the code I have in the online editor into my local app. Thanks again!
Hi All, I’m adding the following in case it can help anyone who has the same issues like me on Windows 10.
First, if you verified that your public signature looks about right like how jshaffstall described and also looked at the page that Owen provided and still can’t get the SSH thing to work and you’re not an expert at SSH (like me), then here’s how I solved it.
a) Create a Windows10 Linux subsystem
b) I installed Ubuntu-20.04
c) start the Ubuntu-20.04 linux subsystem and follow the instructions given in the page by Owen
d) The git clone works for me. Now if you can use it in the Linux System, then it’s done. But for my case, because I need it in Windows10, here’s how you can copy files out of the Linux Subsystem back to Windows 10.
Thanks for all the help fellas and hope this additional information also helps someone else.
have a wonderful day!