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    Using custom SSH keys with Git

    Roland Szabo

    As a freelancer, I work for many clients, who have their source code in many different places, often self hosted. I generally create new SSH keys for each separate platform. Unfortunately, Git doesn't provide an option for what keys to use, you have to configure this in the ~/.ssh/config file:

    Host private.git.server.com
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/key_file_for_this