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Use different github accounts with key auth

this works with URLs like [email protected]:...., not https

1 - Create a separate key for each account

Use this command:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "email address of each account"
# make sure you name the key file accordingly

2 - Add each key to each account

Account Overview -> SSH Public Keys
Upload the content of the public key

3 - Create a host profile for each account in ~/.ssh/config

#---- default
Host github.com
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

#---- for each account do:
Host github-COMPANY
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_COMPANY

Clone, or set your origin accordingly for each repo

git remote add origin git@github-COMPANY:Company/testing.git
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