Avoid inputting the passphrase during ssh verification

Entering the passphrase is annoying when using git commands, and even worse if you need to establish some automation scripts. Here are some methods to solve this issue.

Adding your SSH key to the ssh-agent

Ensure ssh-agent is enabled:

# start the ssh-agent in the background eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" Agent pid 59566 

Add your SSH key to the ssh-agent:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa 

Other methods:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa &>/dev/null

Or try this on OS X?

• git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain 

It enables git to use Keychain.app to store username and password and to retrieve the passphrase to your private ssh key from the keychain.

For windows use:

• git config --global credential.helper wincred