Recently, I’ve been working on some golang projects at DataSift that depend on some private modules. This means that when I run go get to fetch the module, Github asks me for my username and password. Unfortunately, as I use 2FA I need to generate a new, temporary password for applications that want my password. As go get doesn’t cache credentials, I’d have to do this every time I needed a private repo. Instead, I wanted to force go get to use my SSH key.

Fortunately, as go get uses git , you can change your .gitconfig to force it to use SSH.