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title	description	published	date	tags	editor	dateCreated
Setting Up Git	Steps to get up and running with Git	true	2024-07-04T22:14:00.453Z		markdown	2024-06-30T20:44:58.238Z

Description:

Basic steps to get git connected to server and able to clone repos.

Steps:

1. Install and configure git:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "yourname@example.com"
git config --global init.defaultBranch main
git config --global color.ui auto
git config --global pull.rebase false
git config --global core.editor "code --wait"

2. Create SSH Key

ssh-keygen -t ed25519

3. Copy public key to server

cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub 

4. Clone desired repo using ssh

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Notes:

In the even you rename the key to something other than id_rsa, add config file to .ssh folder touch ~/.ssh/config then add:

Host github.com or git server 
 Hostname github.com
 IdentityFile /path/to/privateKey

stat -c %a keyfile checks permissions of key if needed, must be 600 chmod 600 keyfile