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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: oliverw <oliver@weichhold.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GIT over ssh with identity file
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:41:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbpti1tnd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21826348.post@talk.nabble.com> (oliver@weichhold.com's message of "Wed, 4 Feb 2009 00:37:18 -0800 (PST)")

oliverw <oliver@weichhold.com> writes:

> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-04  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-04  8:37 GIT over ssh with identity file oliverw
2009-02-04  8:41 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-02-04  8:50   ` Matthieu Moy
2009-02-04  9:25     ` Junio C Hamano

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