Re: GIT over ssh with identity file

oliverw [off-list ref] writes:

Forgive me if this has been answered before. I've searched everywhere but
couldn't find a solution.

Is it somehow possible to pass your private key file to git when working
over ssh. What I have in mind would be something like this:

git -i /path/to/private/key clone ssh://homer@foo.bar.com/var/git/repos.git 

I think the standard way people use for things like this is something
along the lines of...

    $ cat >>$HOME/.ssh/config <<\EOF
    Host homer-at-foo
      Hostname foo.bar.com
      User homer
      IdentityFile ~/.ssh/homer-at-foo.pub
    EOF
    $ git clone homer-at-foo:/var/git/repos.git