Multi-account Repos - errors

A good example of is dsl-viewer

Set up 
%userprofile%\.ssh\config

Host github-account1

    HostName github.com

    User git

    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/<folder1>/id_ed25519

Host github-account2

    HostName github.com

    User git

    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/<folder2>/id_ed25519

I had a problem where 

✅ ssh -T git@github-account1 working

❌ git ls-remote account1 failing

The reason was that the commands were using different SSH executables:

Manual SSH:

C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe

 

Git:

C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\ssh.exe

Your Windows OpenSSH was correctly reading:

%userprofile%\.ssh\config

and using the github-account2 host alias, while Git's bundled SSH was not behaving the same way.

Fixed with:

git config --global core.sshCommand "C:/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/ssh.exe"

If you use  ssh-agent  (OpenSSH Authentication Agent)

and add the private keys, it should persist across reboots

ssh-add %userprofile%\.ssh\<account1>\id_ed25519

ssh-add %userprofile%\.ssh\<account2>\id_ed25519