# Julia repl is ignoring my ssh config file

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-repl-is-ignoring-my-ssh-config-file/65287>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** github, ssh\
**Created:** [July 26, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-repl-is-ignoring-my-ssh-config-file/65287 "2021-07-26T04:06:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-repl-is-ignoring-my-ssh-config-file/65287/4 "2021-07-27T20:17:22Z")

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> [@giordano](#):
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> However, I believe that starting from Julia v1.7 command-line git should be used to run git operations, when available

I believe by default Julia will still use its own libgit2, but in 1.7 you can set the environment variable `JULIA_PKG_USE_CLI_GIT=true` to force it to use your system git instead.

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