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Olivia22
Olivia22

Reputation: 151

Git .gitconfig and ssh detail problems

I was having problems setting a sshkey for gitlab. It stopped working and it wouldnt work. Somehow its working now, I didnt modify anything I simply added got a new key and added it. Im trying to understand a few things though. (I already read the READMEs)

1.Does my user name and email in .gitconfig have to be exactly the same what they are in my Gitlab profile?

2.When I did ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email" and I forgot to change your_email and It still worked. So whats the purpose adding my email in this part?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 100

Answers (1)

topsail
topsail

Reputation: 3119

Its really just a "descriptive" comment - not really important except as a way to tell one key from another in a simple human readable way.

All options described here: https://linux.die.net/man/1/ssh-keygen

Similar question asked here as well: Should I use my personal email in my ssh public keys?

It's just one of those funny things that adding the -C option with youremail is in the github docs for ssh-keygen but I'm not clear if it really matters or if github makes use of this comment field in any way - perhaps gitlab is in a similar boat.

Upvotes: 1

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