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I'm used to git only prompting me for my SSH passphrase the first time I need to authenticate to a server.

On the system I'm currently on, this only works in a Gnome session. If I start a KDE session, git will require the SSH passphrase every time it authenticates.

Explicitly using the ssh-add comand works around this - after I enter the passphrase, I won't be asked for it again.

Why is git able to implicitly use the ssh agent in one desktop, but not the other? Is there some environment variable or .bashrc thing I need to change?

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    I don't know about KDE, but in Gnome, gnome-keyring-daemon is the process that keeps your ssh keys unlocked. Commented May 7, 2015 at 13:44
  • Apparently KDE's equivalent is KWallet: blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2012/08/12/… Commented Aug 25, 2015 at 21:37

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SSH agent is not started by KDE by default. You need to install package like AUR (en) - plasma-workspace-agent-ssh to start that. And install ksshaskpass to make it ask paraphrase. Then create an autostart file (KDE4: ~/.kde4/Autostart/ssh-add.sh, KDE Plasma: ~/.config/autostart/ssh-add.sh) with this content: 

#!/bin/sh
ssh-add </dev/null

reference: KDE Wallet - ArchWiki

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