If you have GitHub ssh key setup to access your remote repo, whenever you log out your PC your ssh key drops out! So you have to run evalssh-agent -s&& ssh-add ~/.ssh/xxx-key everytime you login.😡

This is how I added ssh-agent and ssh key authentification on start up of git terminal in Windows and in Android studio git bash terminal.

Add your ssh-agent connection to .profile

• In git terminal
• Create a .profile or edit it

  nano ~/.profile
  

• Add these contents. Remember to edit to set path to your ssh key!

  #! /bin/bash 
  eval `ssh-agent -s` 
  ssh-add ~/.ssh/<ADD_PATH_TO_SSH_KEY>
  

Add your ssh-agent connection to .bashrc

• You will need to add to bash as well. eg. I am using git terminal in Android studio so I will need to change bashrc
• Create a .bashrc or edit it

  nano ~/.bashrc
  

• Add these contents. Remember to edit to set path to your ssh key!

  #! /bin/bash 
  eval `ssh-agent -s` 
  ssh-add ~/.ssh/<ADD_PATH_TO_SSH_KEY>
  

• Restart the app that you are using git cli
• You should see something like

  Agent pid XXXX
  Identity added: xxxxxxxxx
  

• Go to one of your repos and fetch remote repo by running

  git fetch
  

• This should fetch contents without asking for key or ssh agent

Credits

• stackoverflow.com/questions/3669001/getting..
• stackoverflow.com/questions/18404272/runnin..
• docs.github.com/en/authentication/connectin..
• Create ssh key

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Hope this saves you some time and getting annoyed 😒😁

Feel free to comment with questions or feedback✌️

Happy coding,

Az 👨🏾‍💻