I have created public/private key pair using the instructions in this link and access is given for this key from GIT. when i tried to clone the repository, i am prompted for password in GIT bash, I tried the passphrase, which i used while generating the key, it did not work and how to solve this issue.
OS: Windows 8
One propable cause is because you haven't set the environment variable HOME (unless you started git with the git-cmd.bat included in the Git For Windows distrbution)
@if not exist "%HOME%" @set HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
@if not exist "%HOME%" @set HOME=%USERPROFILE%
Ssh needs to know where to find your public/private key, and it is by default in %HOME%\.ssh.
As described in "Unable to Git-push master to Github", you can debug it with a:
ssh -Tvvv git@server
