Mango Snippets » #12

Git: Passwordless Push to GitHub

Every time I need to set up passwordless push to GitHub on a new machine, I had to perform many Google searches and read many instructions on different pages. I can't simply find simple instructions on a single page. So this snippet was born.

Here are the three steps to set up passwordless push to GitHub:

1. Generate an SSH key: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "me@domain.com".
2. Add the public key from ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub to your GitHub account.
3. Change your git remote url git remote set-url origin git@github.com:<org>/<repo>.git.