Re: GIT over ssh with identity file

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 4, 2009, 08:41 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbpti1tnd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <21826348.post@talk.nabble.com>

oliverw <oliver@weichhold.com> writes:

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> Forgive me if this has been answered before. I've searched everywhere but
> couldn't find a solution.
>
> Is it somehow possible to pass your private key file to git when working
> over ssh. What I have in mind would be something like this:
>
> git -i /path/to/private/key clone ssh://homer@foo.bar.com/var/git/repos.git

I think the standard way people use for things like this is something along the lines of...

    $ cat >>$HOME/.ssh/config <<\EOF
    Host homer-at-foo
      Hostname foo.bar.com
      User homer
      IdentityFile ~/.ssh/homer-at-foo.pub
    EOF
    $ git clone homer-at-foo:/var/git/repos.git