Why does git keep asking for a passphrase?

Question

GitHub

Using Cygwin via cmder Installed
the git package Followed the
steps from https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys/
Every time I access github, Cygwin asks me for a passphrase:

[email protected] /cygdrive/d/projects/prj_name
$ ssh -T [email protected]
Enter passphrase for key '/home/nicothin/.ssh/id_rsa':

What can I do to stop asking? (other than using a GUI app)

Answer 1

I myself decided that I would not reset the passphrase to empty, I would limit myself to the solution proposed in the article anterence.blogspot.ru/2012/01/ssh-agent-in-msysgit.html Entering
the key once at the start of the console is normal.

Answer 2

ssh-keygen -p

-p Requests changing the passphrase of a private key file instead of creating a new private key. The program will prompt for the file containing the private key, for the old passphrase, and twice for the new passphrase.