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Generating a new SSH key

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): [Type a passphrase]
Enter same passphrase again: [Type passphrase again]

Adding your SSH key to the ssh-agent

$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
Agent pid 59566

Add your SSH key to the ssh-agent.

$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Switching remote URLs from SSH to HTTPS

If you're updating to use SSH, your URL might look like:

[email protected]:USERNAME/OTHERREPOSITORY.git

If you're updating to use HTTPS, your URL might look like:

https://github.com/USERNAME/OTHERREPOSITORY.git

List your existing remotes in order to get the name of the remote you want to change.

$ git remote -v
origin  [email protected]:USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git (fetch)
origin  [email protected]:USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git (push)

Change your remote's URL from SSH to HTTPS with the git remote set-url command.

$ git remote set-url origin [URL]

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