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    Using several accounts on the same git service with ssh

We need to create an alternative certificate for the second account (pk stored in id_rsa.myotheridentity).
WARNING: when generating the new credentials take care not to overwrite any id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files you may have in ~/.ssh
Edit ssh config in ~/.ssh/config . Create it if not exists.
Host gitlabmyproject
    Hostname gitlab.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa.myotheridentity
    IdentitiesOnly yes

Clone the repo:
git clone git@gitlabmyproject:myrepo.git
Done!

Origial source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4565700/how-to-specify-the-private-ssh-key-to-use-when-executing-shell-command-on-git