How to explicitly specify a private key when working with git

Question

linux

I generated the key on my machine, and now I need to work on the other. There is a key. I added it to ~/.ssh/ on a new machine, but alas, this is clearly not enough. I wonder how you can explicitly tell the machine the key to perform git clone?

Answer 1

git clone [email protected]:/repo_dir/
add an .ssh/configentry for the server host with the necessary connection parameters, for example:

Host gitrepo
HostName server
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/private_key
IdentitiesOnly yes
PasswordAuthentication no

Answer 2

Generate a key pair (public-private) on the new machine and add another public key to access the repository. Using the same private key on multiple machines is bad practice.

Answer 3

ssh-add ~/.ssh/privkey