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This seems to work for using a private key when sharing a .ssh\config between MacOS and Windows.

In the config:

# Windows-specific configuration
Match exec "cmd /c if defined OS (exit 0) else (exit 1)"
    IdentityFile C:/Users/myuser/OneDrive/Documents/.ssh/id_ed25519

# macOS/Linux-specific configuration
Match exec "cmd /c if defined OS (exit 1) else (exit 0)"
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Then don't include an IdentityFile for the host entries.

   Host the.host.com
     HostName  the.host.com
     Port 22
     User theuser
##     IdentityFile "~\.ssh\id_ed25519"

Using expansion on Windows didn't work out.

Thanks to GPT for this one!

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