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The other day I started getting ‘Host Key verification’ failed error when trying to deploy an application with Capistrano hosted on a Git repository accessed via SSH. At first the problem was a bit scary, but after a bit of thinking I figured out that the solution to the problem was quite simple.

What I had to do was:

1. ssh to the machine where I wanted to deploy the application to
2. ssh to the git repo machine and accept the key

Done.