How do I connect IntelliJ to GitHub using SSH

Question

I have successfully configured my GitHub client to use SSH, and received the confirmatory email from GitHub that a new SSH key was added. I would like to setup IntelliJ to u

Answer 1

Using IntelliJ 2016.3.3 this seems very straight forward by following the steps below:

1. Generate your keypair to use, if none exists already with

ssh-keygen

2. Add the key to your github profile as per https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account/

3. Modify the settings in IntelliJ under | VersionControl > GitHub

Tick 'Clone git repositories using ssh'

Choose 'Native' as 'SSH executable'