How to connect Git to GitHub

I bought a new laptop and I need to configure it properly. In this series, I will guide you, so that you can use if for programming.

In this article, I will guide you on how to install Git bash (adding a user account) and how to connect to GitHub so that you can upload (push) to your cloud GitHub Repo

1. Installing Git Bash:
Go to the official Git website: https://git-scm.com/downloads

2. Setting up a user account in Git:
After installation, open Git Bash and set up your user account with the following commands:

git config --global user.name "Barack Obama"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

3. Connecting to GitHub:

Generate an SSH key (if you don't already have one):

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"

Press Enter to accept the default file location. You can choose to set a password or leave it empty. Now, you can start the SSH agent:

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

Add your SSH key to the agent:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

run the following command and then copy the output, this is your public SSH key

cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

Add the SSH key to your GitHub account:

• Go to GitHub.com and sign in
• Click on your profile picture in the top right and select "Settings"
• In the left sidebar, click on "SSH and GPG keys"
• Click "New SSH key"
• Give your key a title (e.g., "My New Laptop")
• Paste your public key into the "Key" field
• Click "Add SSH key"

Hopefully, after following the steps stated above, you have successfully linked your computer to GitHub. To test this out, run a git clone command to clone a GitHub repository.

Clone your repository
If you do not have any repository, please feel free to clone mine.

git clone [email protected]:MasterIfeanyi/ifeanyi-coinnest-html.git

Summary

Now you should be all set up with Git Bash, connected to GitHub.

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