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Create key and add it to github Create ssh key: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@example.com" Add your key to agent: ssh-add ~/.ssh/elvinguti_key Add key to github. Update config Update ~/.ssh/config: Host github.com HostName github.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my_work_key IdentitiesOnly yes Host elvinguti.github.com HostName github.com User elvinguti IdentityFile ~/.ssh/elvinguti_key IdentitiesOnly yes you might need to restart the ssh-agent: eval $(ssh-agent -s) Then you should be able to clone a repo or update the git remote url: # URL Format: git@host_alias:user/repo_name.git # Existing repo git remote set-url origin git@elvinguti.github.com:elvinguti/elvingutidev.git` # Clone repo git clone origin git@elvinguti.github.com:elvinguti/elvingutidev.git

I started using i3 as my window manager, and at some point started having some issues with env variables on GUI apps. This is because we usually add env variables to the shell config file, in my case the .zshrc file, however, .zshrc will set the env variables only in your shell and not all the apps. So, when setting up a project using git with ssh and a passphrase as authentication (and after doing all the setup for the gnome keyring) I realized that my VSCode wasn’t actually using the keyring and was asking for the ssh passphrase always, however, this wasn’t happening on my shell. ...