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chris__hayes
Occasional Contributor
3 years ago

How to uninstall the ssh-agent?

I was having an issue with the ssh-agent asking for the system password every 2 minutes and wanted to disable it - Disabling the ssh-agent broke git, I can't commit anything now, every git commit ...
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Former Member
3 years ago

Thanks for posting this, it helped a ton.

After disabling the ssh agent in 1password I followed steps on https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/managing-commit-signature-verification/telling-git-about-your-signing-key?platform=mac to reset things:

shell
git config --global --unset gpg.ssh.program
git config --global gpg.format ssh
git config --global user.signingkey ~/.ssh/<keyname>.pub

If anyone is like me and wondering where their git configs are stored (and what the values are), then you can run this:
git config --list --show-origin