Aide Memoire - Git and SSH rather than HTTPS

 So I'm tinkering with a GitHub project and, having cloned it, was trying to build it using the Makefile: -

cd etcd-operator/

make

which fairly quickly tried/failed to pull in a submodule: -

Cleanup submodule go.mod files
rm -f ./shared-logger/go.mod
Generate submodule go.mod files
git submodule update --init --recursive
Submodule 'shared-logger' (https://github.com/genctl/shared-logger.git) registered for path 'shared-logger'
Cloning into '/root/etcd-operator/shared-logger'...
Username for 'https://github.com': 

Now I have hit this many times before ...

And there is a solution ....

But I couldn't quite remember it ...

Thankfully, Google had the answer, Google is my friend: -

Go: Make error: unable to update repository: fatal: could not read Username for ‘https://github.ibm.com’: terminal prompts disabled

The solution was to update my Git config: -

git config --global url."git@github.com:".insteadOf "https://github.com"

In other words, Git needs to know to use my SSH private key for authentication, rather than the more default HTTPS URL.

Simples!