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ssh will look for its keys by default in the ~/.ssh folder. I want to force it to always look in another location.
The workaround I’m using is to add the keys from the non-standard location to the agent:
ssh-agent ssh-add /path/to/where/keys/really/are/id_rsa (on Linux and MingW32 shell on Windows)
If you are only looking to point to a different location for you identity file, the you can modify your ~/.ssh/config file with the following entry:
man ssh_configto find other config options.