oliverw <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx/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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html