Re: Use different ssh keys for different github repos (per-url sshCommand)

[Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>]

On 07/19/2018 06:52 PM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 03:24:54PM +0300, Basin Ilya wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I have two github accounts, one is for my organization and I want git to automatically choose the correct ssh `IdentityFile` based on the clone URL:
>>
>>     git@github.com:other/publicrepo.git
>>        ~/.ssh/id_rsa
>>     git@github.com:theorganization/privaterepo.git
>>        ~/.ssh/id_rsa.theorganization
>>
>> Unfortunately, both URLs have same host name, therefore I can't configure this in the ssh client config. I could create a host alias there, but sometimes somebody else gives me the github URL and I want it to work out of the box.
>>
>> I thought I could add a per-URL `core` section similar to `user` and `http`, but this section is ignored by git (2.18):
>>
>>     [core "git@github.com:theorganization"]
>>         sshCommand = /bin/false
>>         #sshCommand = ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.theorganization
>>
>> I thought of writing a wrapper script to deduce the key from the arguments:
>>
>>     git@github.com git-upload-pack '/theorganization/privaterepo.git'
>>
>> Is this the only option?
> 
> This is what I do (I don't have two accounts on github, but
> elsewhere; same idea though)

my apologies; I did not read your email fully and went off half-cocked!
Looks like you already tried host aliases and they don't work for you.

Sorry for the noise!