did you know that ~/.ssh/config aliases work for git remotes??
~/.ssh/config
Host gh
HostName github.com
User git
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gh_key
you can now use gh:username/repo as the remote in place of
git@github.com:username/repo, which is much shorter and easier to type
many times!
git clone gh:benharri/learngit
there are many other use cases for the ssh_config file. for example,
here is my config for the tilde machine for easy ssh connections.
Host tilde
HostName tilde.team
User ben
then use ssh tilde to start a new ssh session. this also works with
scp: try something like this scp file.txt tilde:workspace/. in place
of scp file.txt ben@tilde.team:workspace/.
the ssh_config file is super useful. check man ssh_config for a full
list of options!