Git Setup

Installation + Initial Setup

  • check if git is installed git --version, otherwise sudo apt install git-all
  • git config --global user.name "YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME"
  • verify configuration git config --global user.name
  • git config --global user.email "YOUR_GITHUB_EMAIL"
  • generate ssh key ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "YOUR_GITHUB_EMAIL"
  • add public key ( cat /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.ssh/NAME_OF_THE_KEY.pub ) to GitHub settings
  • add ssh key to agent eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
  • vim /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.ssh/config and add 
    Host github.com
  HostName github.com
  IgnoreUnknown UseKeychain
  AddKeysToAgent yes
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/NAME_OF_THE_KEY
  • ssh-add ~/.ssh/NAME_OF_THE_KEY
  • test ssh connection ssh -T git@github.com, if answer is YES, it's working
  • then you can clone a repo to your server ( git clone git@github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME:YOUR_GITHUB_REPO.git ) or you can create new repo on your local machine

Create New Git Repositary and Publish it on GitHub

  • create a repo on GitHub
  • move to your project directory
  • git init
  • create .gitignore, readme, django project
  • add everything in git git add . or git status and git add FILE_YOU_WANT_TO_ADD
  • create commit message git commit -m "initial"
  • git remote add origin YOUR_SSH_URL (git@github.com:YOUR_GH_USERNAME/YOUR_GH_REPO_NAME.git)
  • verify the new remote URL git remote -v
  • push files to master branch on GitHub git push -u origin master

Resources:

➡️https://help.github.com/en/articles/setting-your-username-in-git

➡️https://help.github.com/en/articles/setting-your-commit-email-address-in-git

➡️https://help.github.com/en/articles/which-remote-url-should-i-use#cloning-with-ssh-urls

➡️https://help.github.com/en/articles/connecting-to-github-with-ssh

➡️https://help.github.com/en/articles/testing-your-ssh-connection

➡️https://help.github.com/en/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent

➡️https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47455300/ssh-config-bad-configuration-option-usekeychain-on-mac-os-sierra-10-12-6

➡️https://help.github.com/en/articles/set-up-git