There are tons of articles about this topic, but as usual things are slightly different for for about just everyone writing about it.

The most helpful resource has been a post from Jeff Tchang about the very same thing. I’ve followed the instructions for Windows (XP) and with some small differences things do seem to work now – yay!

The differences were:

• ssh github.com does not work as described but gives an error ‘Permission denied (publickey)‘
• The git clone URL that finally worked was using ssh.github.com, but without the leading ssh://, so for example: git clone git@ssh.github.com:443/DerManoMann/zc-base.git

I haven’t actually tried to push anything via that connection – so far pulling was all I needed.