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How to setup a deploy key for repo on shared server environment
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GitHub Deploy Key Setup

  1. Generate key
ssh-keygen
...
cp ./key-name* ~/.ssh

  1. Go to GitHub repo and add key-name.pub

  2. Clone repo using trick from this stackoverflow thread

ssh-agent bash -c 'ssh-add ~/.ssh/key-name; git clone git@github.com:user/proj-name.git'
  1. Open ~/.ssh/config and add a block like this:
Host github-proj-name
HostName github.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/key-name
  1. Finally, open .git/config in your new repo and change the hostname in the git connection string like this:
git@github-proj-name:user/proj-name.git

Now you will be able to push/pull without password authentication.

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