Installing Git and GitHub

Download & Install

• Download setup of git from here.
• After, install it just clicking on ‘Next’ button several time (no special setting to do).

NOTE: Be sure that Git Bash is installed on your system!!!

GitHub Configurations

• Run Git Bash program.
• Setup a new ssh key with ssh-keygen command and give it a $sshKeygenName (otherwise it will be id_rsa).
• Go to Settings of your GitHub account and press SSH and GPG keys.
• Click on New SSH key.
• Give it a Title and paste the content of sshKeygenName.pub file under the nameof Key.
• Run the following commands in Git Bash to present yourself to your computer.

git config --global user.name "$username"
git config --global user.email "$email"
git config --global user.password "$password"
git config --global credential.helper store

• Activate your ssh-agent by using

eval `ssh-agent -s`

• Add your identity by using ssh-add -l
• Add your $sshKeygenName by using ssh-add ~/.ssh/$sshKeygenName.
• Now, you are ready to use git clone git@github.com:username/repositoryname.git.

Note:Use Git Bash as your terminal to run the commands. Note2:If these steps were successfull and you have some problem after a period of time, rerun the commands below.

eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add -l
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa