Re: Use different ssh keys for different github repos (per-url sshCommand)

From: Basin Ilya <basinilya@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 19, 2018, 19:01 UTC
Message-ID: <966f577f-c4ca-46a4-d55d-817e84780324@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180719164251.GA4868@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Wow, thanks.

For me it was enough to configure just one rewrite, because my public github account is associated with my default key. Note that I added the missing slash and the username:

    git config --global \
      url.git@gh-org:theorganization/.insteadOf \
      git@github.com:theorganization/

19.07.2018 19:42, Jeff King пишет:

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> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 03:24:54PM +0300, Basin Ilya wrote:
> 
>> I have two github accounts, one is for my organization and I want git
>> to automatically choose the correct ssh `IdentityFile` based on the
>> clone URL:
>>
>>     git@github.com:other/publicrepo.git
>>        ~/.ssh/id_rsa
>>     git@github.com:theorganization/privaterepo.git
>>        ~/.ssh/id_rsa.theorganization
>>
>> Unfortunately, both URLs have same host name, therefore I can't
>> configure this in the ssh client config. I could create a host alias
>> there, but sometimes somebody else gives me the github URL and I want
>> it to work out of the box.
> 
> I think you can hack around this using Git's URL rewriting.
> 
> For example, try this:
> 
>   git config --global \
>     url.gh-other:other/.insteadOf \
>     git@github.com:other/
> 
>   git config --global \
>     url.gh-org:theorganization.insteadOf \
>     git@github.com:theorganization/
> 
> And then:
> 
>   git clone git@github.com:other/publicrepo.git
> 
> will hit gh-other, which you can configure using an ssh host alias.
> 
> -Peff
>