From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:42:39 GMT
Subject: Re: SSH keys location
Message-ID: <20100422184239.GA29426@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <v2rb42431c81004221140n31c76030m74656d01950b8ae0@mail.gmail.com>

Mahesh Vaidya <forvaidya@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a situation where I must save my private keys location other
> than ~/.ssh ; How do I tell git URL that please take public key from
> so and so location equivalent of ssh -i <identity-file> flag
> 
> example my clone command is
> 
> git clone gitosis@server:repos.git

Just use ~/.ssh/config to rewrite the options:

  Host server
    IdentityFile /some/private/key/path

-- 
Shawn.