WikiJS/home/linux/setting-up-git.md

title	description	published	date	tags	editor	dateCreated
Setting Up Git	Steps to get up and running with Git	true	2025-06-06T12:27:42.157Z		markdown	2025-06-06T12:27:40.548Z

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

Taken from this superuser thread:

Regarding contacting the same host with different keys: Here it is essential to understand that in .ssh/config, Hostis a custom name you can give to the host specified underHostName. The github.com part in the git URL git@github.com:torvalds/linux.git refers to thisHostand thus has to match it exactly. If you have a second Github ssh key, you can create a section Host github2 in ~/.ssh/config and then use the URLgit@github2:torvalds/linux.g(see also superuser.com/a/1519694/96128). –user905686 Commented Apr 12, 2021 at 17:42