How to automatically authenticate into GitHub from Git Bash using my Public and Private Keys instead of username and password?

Question

Every time when I write

git pull origin master

or

git push origin master

or anything else in Git Bash I have to insert my username and password to login into GitHub.

I would like instead to automatically authenticate into GitHub using my Public and Private Keys.

I've already created the keys. They are into my local machine under ~/.ssh. I've attached the public key to my account as well. But I'm always asked for the username and password instead.

What do I still have to do to be able to login direct with the keys? Many thanks!

Answer 1

Based on this post https://stackoverflow.com/a/15034499 we learn that git won't ask for user and password only if the repository is configured to use ssh and NOT https.

We can change this using: git remote set-url origin [email protected]:user/repo.git