Setting up git over ssh

Advantages:

• Works when github’s 2fa is enabled
• Easier and safer than using password login

  Setting up

• ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 in GIT BASH for windows and any terminal for linux/macos
  • Key location: Hit enter to use default path
  • Name: your github username
  • Email: the email associated with your github account. If you have your email set up as hidden or are not sure which email to use, go to https://github.com/settings/emails under “Primary email” to find the github-generated email you should use instead.
  • Optionally enter a passphrase:
    • You will need to enter this every time you use git over ssh (git clone, git push, etc)
    • Can change it later
  • Go to the location you put the file above (default ~/.ssh)
    • Copy the contents of id_rsa.pub or whatever you set the file name to above
    • Go to https://github.com/settings/keys and click “New SSH key”
    • Paste in all the content of your id_rsa.pub file
    • Put any name for the key, something that will help you remember that it is this key
    • Click “Add SSH key”

      Using ssh

      Clone new repositories

• git clone ssh-url in terminal
  • The ssh-url is in the ssh code tab when trying to clone a repository
  • Looks like: git@github.com:[repository-namespace]/[repostory-name].git
  • !Don’t delete your cloned folder until you want to clone the repository again!

    Change existing local clones to use ssh url instead

• git remote set-url remote-name ssh-url in terminal
  • The remote-name is the name of your remote - should be origin but it can be anything

Changed

• You have changed your remote name or repository name?
• It is really easy to put your git back on track
• Go to your cloned folder, in .git and in config
  • To change the remote name:
    • [remote “name”]
    • in the fetch after /remotes/ put the new name
    • And in branch make remote = new name
  • For the url all you have to do is change the repository name in that url