Intro

If you have setup ssh authentification to GitHub and if you are annoyed at setting ssh-agent and github key everytime you pull/push to git, here is how you automate it 😁

Edit linux profile

This is based on linux WSL2 system

• Edit your linux profile

  nano ~/.profile
  

• And add eval

  `eval `ssh-agent` 
  ssh-add ~/.ssh/github-key
  

• Close current terminal and open new terminal
• You should have these lines printed out at start of terminal

  Agent pid XXXX Identity added: /root/.ssh/github-key XXXX
  

• Test fetching/commiting and pushing a change. eg

  git fetch
  git commit --allow-empty -m "test"
  git push
  

Credits

• https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent
• 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,

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