sky7drake / gitTools

learn to use git

Git Tools

using git on Windows

use ssh to logon github.com

> cd %userprofile%\.ssh\
> ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "<your-email-address>"

Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (C:/Users/<your_username>/.ssh/id_rsa): 

> C:\Users\<your_username>\.ssh\id_rsa_<your_username>

> <your_passphrase>

Paste *.pub to github.com -> "Settings" -> "SSH and GPG keys".

setting up multiple github accounts

using VS code as editor

> cd %userprofile%\.ssh\
> code config

config file content:

# default github account
Host github.com
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

# other accounts
Host github_<you_name_it>
  HostName github.com
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_<you_name_it>

to clone repository from the other account

git clone git@github_<you_name_it>:<your_github_account>/<your_github_repo>.git

to set username and email for this repo, after that the change can be seen on the file ".git\config" under your repo folder

git config user.name "<your_user_name>"
git config user.email "<your_email>"