How to Generate and Add SSH Keys to Github / Bitbucket (MacOS) 

Glad to help! I have found that a lot of my students get confused about SSH keys.

Love the question. When typing your ssh-keygen command, also add -f ~/.ssh/yournewkey to the end. This will save a new key with the new path+name you provided. You can then explicitly load your key with ssh-add ~/.ssh/yournewkey You can have multiple identities loaded at one time

@@rytis-codes Thanks for that , but one thing just occurred to me is how do I stop someone cloning my repo using https cloning. if they know my ssh clone which is password protected , then it will be easy to figure out my https clone, which will not be password protected . Any thanks again

@@RMIT_s210 Access is controlled by the host (GitHub for example). If you make your repository private, then server will reject any cloning attempts even if someone knows the URL.

@@rytis-codes okay, but on my local machine Git will not reject cloning my private repos, even when I'm logged out of github. It must remember my credientials when I'm logged out. Can I clear its memory ? Thanks

@@RMIT_s210 Being logged in to Github and actually using git are two separate things. If you're talking about HTTPs cloning, then yes it will use github credentials, and if someone knows them then they could clone the repository. That's why you have to have a strong password and use a password manager. I'm not sure whether git itself remembers your credentials. Even if it does then its for a limited amount of time, and should clear after restart.

ssh-add

does ssh-add saves it so that every time i turn on the computer i dont have do ssh-add it every time?@@rytis-codes

Good question. If you're using WSL it should be exactly the same. Otherwise git should have its own terminal if you install it on Windows. TBH, I'm not that familiar with development on Windows, since I've last done in 8 years ago.