Having a local git repo configured, I haven’t yet set up ssh authentication. Instead I use HTTPS with a username and password. It can be tiresome typing in the login credentials over and over, so I typically cache the credentials with a reasonable timeout.
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git config --global user.name "patrick"
git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'
I also make sure my .git/config contains the username so I don’t need to type that in over and over.
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https://<USERNAME>@github.com/path/to/repo.git
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