Why am I getting these errors from GitHub?

Question

I followed these instructions and could not connect to github for the life of me.

>plink -ssh github.com FATAL ERROR: Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available plink -ssh [e-mail] You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not 

with a turtle

 git.exe push "origin" master ERROR: Permission to name/MyEmptyRepoOnGitHubHere denied to name. fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly 

What's happening?

NOTE. I carefully followed the instructions. It was much worse before I followed them.

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this solution was the first cloning (the instructions say you need to click), and using a URL like [e-mail] :NAME/REPO.git , not missing git@

Answer 2

More details here - The problem of connecting to GitHub on Windows, even through PuTTY