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Specifying the private key for GIT on Windows

If GIT keeps asking for your password, even though you have private key auth set up, then its SSH probably doesn’t know which key to use. Fix this by making a “config” file in your user’s .ssh folder:

echo IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github_rsa > %USERPROFILE%\.ssh\config
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