I have a question regarding managing two Github accounts in my machine (office and personal). Whenever I create a repo in personal am I supposed to create a new ssh key(As my office git account username and email are global)? Using windows credentials way I'm prompted to enter the username and password for the first time I do remote push then onwards I need not have to do that for that particular repo. I wanted to try by ssh(to avoid entering my git account credentials for the first time) or can I stick with the windows credential manager way?
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Whenever I create a repo in personal am I supposed to create a new ssh key(As my office git account username and email are global)?
No: the SSH key remains the same and is used to authenticate you to your personal GitHub account.
You only need to register that key in your ~/.ssh/config file:
Host perso
Hostname github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/myPersoKey
Then, in your local cloned repository:
cd /path/to/local/clone
git remote set-url origin perso:<me>/<myrepo>
Then a git push will use the SSH URL, with the right perso key.
3 Comments
sathyamurthy
In fact your reply confirmed the way i tried after posting the question. Thanks a lot VonC for taking time out to reply to my question.
sathyamurthy
VonC im using windows. The above step to set-url is for macbook?. In windows i created repo internally and just by adding the ssh url from github repo established the connection. Thus, i could push the code into the github repo without any requirement for entering my github account credentials.
VonC
Yes, those steps would be the same for Windows.