* Trying to use insteadOf trick to use different SSH keys for separate github accounts - not working
@ 2017-12-16 7:50 Asfand Qazi
2017-12-16 9:48 ` Jeff King
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Asfand Qazi @ 2017-12-16 7:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Hello,
Here's what I'm trying to do, that i need your help with to make work:
I have 2 github accounts, each with their own SSH key: my home account
(default SSH key) and my work account (alternative SSH key). I can
create a virtual hostname in my ~/.ssh/config like so:
Host work.github.com
Hostname github.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa-work
and then clone repos with:
git clone git@work.github.com/MyCompany/la-repo.git
However, I'm trying to use Go, which needs to access every repo host
as 'github.com', and won't support my little SSH hostname trick by
default.
I found out about the 'insteadOf' setting, and thought it would work.
So I added this to my global git config:
[url "git@github.com:MyCompany/"]
insteadOf = git@work.github.com:MyCompany/
and left the SSH hostname setting where it was. Then I tried doing:
git clone git:github.com/MyCompany/la-repo.git
But it won't work. With GIT_TRACE=2, I get:
$ GIT_TRACE=2 git clone git@github.com:MyCompany/la-repo.git
07:46:27.627557 git.c:344 trace: built-in: git 'clone'
'git@github.com:MyCompany/la-repo.git'
Cloning into 'la-repo'...
07:46:27.629623 run-command.c:626 trace: run_command: 'ssh'
'git@github.com' 'git-upload-pack '\''MyCompany/la-repo.git'\'''
ERROR: Repository not found.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks
Regards,
Asfand
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* Re: Trying to use insteadOf trick to use different SSH keys for separate github accounts - not working
2017-12-16 7:50 Trying to use insteadOf trick to use different SSH keys for separate github accounts - not working Asfand Qazi
@ 2017-12-16 9:48 ` Jeff King
2017-12-16 10:04 ` Asfand Qazi
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jeff King @ 2017-12-16 9:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Asfand Qazi; +Cc: git
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 07:50:02AM +0000, Asfand Qazi wrote:
> I found out about the 'insteadOf' setting, and thought it would work.
> So I added this to my global git config:
>
> [url "git@github.com:MyCompany/"]
> insteadOf = git@work.github.com:MyCompany/
>
> and left the SSH hostname setting where it was. Then I tried doing:
>
> git clone git:github.com/MyCompany/la-repo.git
>
> But it won't work. With GIT_TRACE=2, I get:
If I'm reading it right, you have the config backwards. You want to
convert git@github.com from Go's invocation of Git into your special
"work" alias. So:
[url "git@work.github.com:MyCompany/"]
insteadOf = "git@github.com:MyCompany/"
-Peff
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* Re: Trying to use insteadOf trick to use different SSH keys for separate github accounts - not working
2017-12-16 9:48 ` Jeff King
@ 2017-12-16 10:04 ` Asfand Qazi
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Asfand Qazi @ 2017-12-16 10:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeff King; +Cc: git
Thanks it worked! I was reading all the tutorials wrong all this time...
Regards,
Asfand
On 16 December 2017 at 09:48, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 07:50:02AM +0000, Asfand Qazi wrote:
>
>> I found out about the 'insteadOf' setting, and thought it would work.
>> So I added this to my global git config:
>>
>> [url "git@github.com:MyCompany/"]
>> insteadOf = git@work.github.com:MyCompany/
>>
>> and left the SSH hostname setting where it was. Then I tried doing:
>>
>> git clone git:github.com/MyCompany/la-repo.git
>>
>> But it won't work. With GIT_TRACE=2, I get:
>
> If I'm reading it right, you have the config backwards. You want to
> convert git@github.com from Go's invocation of Git into your special
> "work" alias. So:
>
> [url "git@work.github.com:MyCompany/"]
> insteadOf = "git@github.com:MyCompany/"
>
> -Peff
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