Hello there @matthewcroughan,
You should be able to clone the balena repository by carrying out the following:
git clone <user>@git.balena-cloud.com:<user>/<app>.git
Where <user> is your balena username and <app> is the name of the application you want the source for. As long as the SSH keys registered with your balena account are in your ssh-agent keychain, then this should work without issue.
However, I want to stress very strongly that we make absolutely no guarantee that any code pushed to our private git repositories will be present if required. They are used purely as a store for our Builders to access to build application images, and as such are considered volatile. As per this page: https://www.balena.io/docs/learn/deploy/deployment/#git-push we make the following warning:
“Warning: The balenaCloud git repository is not intended as a code hosting solution, and we cannot guarantee the persistence of data in balenaCloud git remotes. We recommend you use a service like Github to manage and share your code.”
I’d also like to use this opportunity to note that git push is now considered a legacy form of pushing to our builders, and we will not be improving or recommending this method. The correct way to push code to our Builders is now balena push.
Thanks and best regards,
Heds