Push to GitHub without a password using ssh-key

September 26, 2022 by Tarik

If it is asking you for a username and password, your origin remote is pointing at the HTTPS URL rather than the SSH URL.

Change it to ssh.

For example, a GitHub project like Git will have an HTTPS URL:

https://github.com/<Username>/<Project>.git

And the SSH one:

git@github.com:<Username>/<Project>.git

You can do:

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:<Username>/<Project>.git

to change the URL.