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I am in a situation, where I need my msysgit to talk to github with different keys. However git bash insists on using the keyfile named id_rsa ONLY . If I do ssh -vT git@github.com I see only id_rsa being offered. So whenever I need to use any other key I have to do all this, ssh-agent bash ssh-add ~/.ssh/mygithubkey git clone git@github.com:myaccount/myrepo.git or rename mygithubkey to id_rsa whenever i need it backing up the original id_rsa to another file anotherkey and of course it is a pain, especially because the command history is also different across the regular git bash. Other answers in stackoverflow helped only to arrive at my above workaround. If I do ssh-add ~/.ssh/mygithubkey directly in my git bash, it says could not connect to ssh-agent. If I do ssh-agent ssh-add ~/.ssh/mygithubkey git pull ssh -vT git@github.com directly in my git bash, it says permission denied, it seems ssh-add did not really add the key permanently! And the added key is not offered while looking at the debug messages in verbose mode. Is there anyway to permanently add a list of ssh keys to offer, when sshing into github? Im mostly a windows user today, so please be verbose in the answer.

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