SSH Key - Still asking for password and passphrase

Question

I\'ve been somewhat \'putting up\' with Github always asking for my username and password when I clone a repository. I want to bypass this step because it is an annoyance w

Answer 1

Adding to the above answers. Had to do one more step on Windows for git to be able to use ssh-agent.

Had to run the following command in powershell to update the environment variable:

PS> [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("GIT_SSH", "$((Get-Command ssh).Source)", [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User)

Restart VSCode, Powershell or whatever terminal you are using to activate the env variable.

Complete instructions can be found [here] (https://snowdrift.tech/cli/ssh/git/tutorials/2019/01/31/using-ssh-agent-git-windows.html).