How to use GitHub with SSH Keys on Windows 10

Is the user of the Secure Shell a requirement when you connect to GitHub? In this quick GitHub SSH on Windows tutorial, we'll show you how to create SSH keypairs with ssh-keygen, copy the public SSH key on Windows, configure Windows SSH in GitHub, and finally perform a git clone while connected to GitHub over SSH on Windows.

It requires a bit of PowerShell. It requires a bit of GitHub configuration. And it requires a few SSH keys to be created. But in the end, it's all pretty easy to do.

To learn more about how to create GitHub SSH keys, check out this TechTarget article:

All in all, you can configure GitHub SSH on Windows in less than 5 minutes. It's that easy!

[buyukparkas]

Youtube needs more of these chill tutorials. Makes me wanna watch all of the tutorials without me even needing them.

[level_up]

I want you to know that I have struggled for legitimately hour trying over multiple days to get SSH keys working on my pc. Every other tutorial uses complicated commands that my computer never understands, so legitimately thank you for such a simple tutorial it finally worked... Also your positivity in this tutorial was greatly appreciated I was really losing hope and it helped so much. Thank you so much for this tutorial!

[PC-ilyh]

Dude! What a chill and straightforward video! Thanks!

[lmoreno]

Good stuff, quick and easy tutorial. Appreciate it!

[alexandrogiles]

Thank for your explanation with that humorous touch of you, really enjoy those comments: "I don't gonna judge you".

[luigiistratescu]

YOU ARE A M A Z I N G, sorted me out, short & concise!

[jonfrxnz_]

i love this tuts so chill i love the vibe

[acronproject]

Thanks for this content. It's very useful and clear understanding for me.

[Quadropheniaspain]

amazing, you're great. i whish all my so called teachers had half the talent you have!

[acutitan]

Thank you much for this it turns out that due to a driver issue I couldn't make ssh keys from gitbash but I never thought of using powershell my issue is solved and I am no longer in fear of getting a 0 on my first assignment of the semester tysm!

[BanAaron]

Great video. Clear and straght to the point

[anacosta]

Thumbs up just because listening to you just made me feel good about life! With a strange urge to draw ascii art....

[GaborGubicza]

Short, snappy, accurate, no BS. 5 star.
Hardware Engineer transitioning to Software.

[codingisfun-pranayharishch]

thank you much sir, i am so thankful you made this video

[maknusmoskovitz]

Best tutorial out there, thanks... really

[Phs]

"fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists."

[astev]

Just be aware, this is for windows and will work with wsl bash, but won't work with Ubuntu if you are using it in the wsl sub-system. The key needs to be generated with Ubuntu and stored in /home/<username/.ssh key. It took me a while to figure that out.

[MultiPauleee]

don't you have to add your ssh key to your ssh agent in order to push afterwords to github?

[williamdevonshire]

nice thanks :) for me i was trying to do it in my vscode terminal and wasnt working. I had to eventually go to my gitcmd and do it there and tada

[paulaji]

When bro is hilarious and gets the job done! :)