You can extend this trick further by specifying the User in your SSH config to make for even shorter URLs. Host gh-me Hostname github.com User git

You can extend this trick further by specifying the User in your SSH config to make for even shorter URLs. Host gh-me Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa Host gh-work Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_work Then all you need is a `git clone gh-me:org/repo` or `git clone gh-work:work/repo`. I've been using this for sometime and it's not too hard to remember. Although when I don't it's easy enough to fix the origin url by editing `.git/config`.