Moving from https to ssh on GITHUB

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I have looked up other questions but do not get the same results the answers have provided.

I initially had my DigitalOcean droplet backed up with a github repo using https.

I have deleted the old .git folder. I have updated the ~/.ssh/config file according to: How to permanently add a private key with ssh-add on Ubuntu?

Everytime I push or 'git push --set-upstream origin main' I get the option to input my username and password and then get rejected for using https.

I have also updated my ~/.ssh/config file to:

    HostName github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/yourPrivateKeyName
    IdentitiesOnly yes

Did you change the remote URL to use SSH instead of HTTPS? Doesn't sound like you did — fredrik, Sep 14 '21 at 20:36
Git repositories are not a good way to do backups, and GitHub is not going to appreciate you using their service for backups. You'd be better off using a real backup solution (e.g., bup or Tarsnap) that is designed to do backups in an efficient way. — bk2204, Sep 14 '21 at 21:37

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 15 '21 at 01:48

To move from https to ssh, you just need a

# replace <your-name> and <your-repo> with the real values.
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:<your-name>/<your-repo>.git

However, to make it easy, you can just clone a new local repo.

Just type

# replace <your-name> and <your-repo> with the real values.
git clone git@github.com:<your-name>/<your-repo>.git my-new-local-repo

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