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Allow to clone via SSH

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Description

When cloning via Desktop the remote origin is set to the https URL. Since I always use SSH when working on the terminal, I have to change the remote which is really annoying. It would be nice to have a setting where the user can decide if new repos should be cloned via https or ssh.

Version

GitHub Desktop version: 0.6.1 OS version: macOS Sierra 10.12.5 (16F73)

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:79
Comments:22 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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foresmaccommented, Dec 13, 2017

Please let me leave a strong +1 on this feature request. I got frustrated with this a lot recently since we’re doing like a dozen new projects at the office. Even after manually selecting the ssh ref and pasting that into the clone repository dialog, Github Desktop rewrites them to use the HTTPS URLs.

Due to security and regulatory reasons, we need to sign every commit, and this is all handled perfectly via terminal and VS Code because I have everything configured in my git config. But trying to do it via HTTPS is a major pain.

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cmeyertonscommented, Jun 13, 2018

Expanding on @joshaber 's comment, the workaround can be performed with

git config --global url."git@github.com:".insteadOf https://github.com/

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