Adding SSH keys for Git

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// SSH config
// Enter SSH config, which is a per-user configuration file for SSH communication. Create a new file: ~/.ssh/config and open it for editing:

nano ~/.ssh/config


// Managing Custom Named SSH key
// The first thing we are going to solve using this config file is to avoid having to add custom-named SSH keys using ssh-add. Assuming your private SSH key is named ~/.ssh/id_rsa, add following to the config file:

Host github.com
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
  IdentitiesOnly yes


// Alternatively, use BASH to set the SSH key manually upon every terminal restart:

eval $(ssh-agent -s)
ssh-add /c/users/Admin/.ssh/[keyname]