Auycro

Set up multiple ssh keys for separate GitHub's repository

20 Feb 2020

Prerequisite:

  1. GitHub repository

  2. SSH public and private key

  3. ~/.ssh/config

Host foobar-repository
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github-deploy-id_rsa

How to:

  1. Add public key to repository deploy key.

    GitHub Repository > Settings > Deploy Keys > Add deploy key

  2. Switch remote URLs to new Host as config file

    2.1 check current remote Url: git remote -v

     $ git remote -v
 origin  git@github.com:auycro/temporary-repo.git (fetch)
 origin  git@github.com:auycro/temporary-repo.git (push)

    2.2 switch remote git remote set-url by using ~/.ssh/config to replace it.

     $ git remote set-url origin foobar-repository:auycro/temporary-repo.git
 $ git remote -v
 origin  foobar-repository:auycro/temporary-repo.git (fetch)
 origin  foobar-repository:auycro/temporary-repo.git (push)

  3. Check remote Url by using git fetch

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