Git keeps asking me for my ssh key passphrase?

Question

I'm using Linux and I created keys as instructed in the github tutorial, registered them with github, and tried using ssh-agent explicitly — yet git continues to ask me for my passphrase every time I try to do a pull or a push. What could be the cause?

Answer 1

You need to store your git credentials. You can save them locally with the following command:

git config --global credential.helper store

Then, when you do a "git push" or "git pull", it will ask you for your credentials. After you provide them, they will be stored in your home directory in a hidden file called .git-credentials. You can run the following command to see your git credentials:

less ~/.git