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Setting up git for first time🔗

Setting up git config🔗

  • set user name git config --global user.name "your_user_name"
  • set email git config --global user.email "your_email"

Using HTTP🔗

  • Use subsequent command to set git to always use https url if if you clone using ssh. git config --global url."ssh://git@github.com".insteadOf "https://github.com"
  • install library libsecret the library name may change depdending upon linux distribution
  • this will save credentials to gnome-keyring or libsecret git config --global credential.helper /usr/lib/git-core/git-credential-libsecret
  • if you can't find this path /usr/lib/git-core/git-credential-libsecret then you can use locate -b git-credential-libsecret
  • credentials store with libsecret are encrypted so they are secure

optional

you can try https://github.com/hickford/git-credential-oauth this library to authenticate using oauth installation instruction are given in repo.

Using SSH🔗

  • Use subsequent command to set git to always use ssh url if if you clone using https. git config --global url."https://github.com".insteadOf "git@github.com:"
  • Install openssh package in your system
  • Enable service to start on startup for ssh daemon and keygen using sudo systemctl enable --now sshd sshdgenkeys
  • Run this command to generate keys ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email"
  • Provide filename to save generally i recommend to use githubusername-git
  • There will be 2 files generated in current directory one public key with .pub extension and other without extension that's your private key
  • Finally add the ssh key to ssh-agent using ssh-add path-to-files/you_name-git remember always add private key
  • If ssh-agent is not started you can start it by using eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" and then again follow previous step.
  • Now go to github settings → SSH and GPG Keys → click on New SSH Key -> put in title, and content of generated key with extension .pub
  • done

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