How to configure multiple deploy keys for different private github repositories on the same computer

Generate your first ssh key, for this type the following command line in your terminal:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"

Now copy the content of your public key and add it to Github:

cat /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Go to the following folder: ~/.ssh by typing: cd ~/.ssh. And rename your keys:

mv id_rsa id_repo1_rsa
mv id_rsa.pub id_repo1_rsa.pub

Now we need to configure our keys in the repo and ssh, to do this type the following command line:

nano ~/.ssh/config

And add the following content:

Host repo1
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_repo1_rsa
  IdentitiesOnly yes

Now we can clone our repository via ssh with the following command:

git clone git@repo1:YourGitHubName/repo1.git

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