Setting up a remote repository using GitHub and OSX

The formatting of the commands on this page is slightly messed up due to Textile – use the original blog link: <a href="http://www.jaisenmathai.com/blog/2008/04/10/how-to-get-started-hosting-your-git-repository-using-github-and-osx/" target="_blank">Originally posted on jaisenmathai.com</a>. Hosting remote git repositories using <a href="http://github.com" target="_blank">GitHub</a> is completely painless, assuming that you’ve already signed up for an account at GitHub and that you have Git installed on your computer. For OSX, you can use macports to easily get Git’s command line tools installed. <ul> <li><a href="#publickeys">Create your public keys</a></li> <li><a href="#makerepo">Make a repository on GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="#remoterepo">Specify GitHub as a remote repository</a></li> <li><a href="#pushcode">Push your code to GitHub</a></li> </ul> <a name="publickeys"></a><h2>Create your public keys</h2> If you haven’t already given GitHub your public key, you’ll want to do that now. If you don’t already have a public key, let’s do that first. Fire up a terminal and do the following: <pre class="console">user# cd ~/.ssh user# ssh-keygen Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa): # press enter here Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): # type in your passphrase here Enter same passphrase again: # type your passphrase again Your identification has been saved in /Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: 50:43:77:c6:97:af:61:82:dc:ea:9b:6b:67:d4:1b:61 user@host</pre> Now that you’ve generated your public key, you should see it when you do an <tt>ls</tt>. Once this is verified, you can copy the contents to your clipboard: <pre class="console">user# ls known_hosts id_rsa id_rsa.pub user# cat id_rsa.pub | pbcopy</pre> Now that your public key is on your OSX clipboard head on over to <a href="http://github.com/account" target="_blank">http://github.com/account</a>, paste it in, and save it. Note that git expects to use the key named ‘id_rsa’ – if you generate a key with a different name, you’re likely to get ssh errors. <a name="makerepo"></a><h2>Make a repository on GitHub</h2> Next, you’ll want to create a repository on GitHub. Go to <a href="http://github.com/repositories/new" target="_blank">http://github.com/repositories/new</a> and fill out the form and make note of the project name as we’ll be using that as the name of your git repository. Feel free to select either public or private. <a name="remoterepo"></a><h2>Specify GitHub as a remote repository</h2> Let’s move on to specifying GitHub as a remote repository on your local workstation/laptop. Head back to your terminal and do the following. <pre class="console">user# cd ~/repos/my_repo user# vi .git/config</pre> You should see a core section and will want to add a remote section. The name can be anything, but I recommend using something like “github” to make it easier to remember what you’re doing down the road. Let’s add the following to the bottom of the config file. <pre class="console">[remote “github”] url = git@github.com:git_username/projectname.git fetch = +refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/ push = refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master</pre> Your config file should now look something like this. <pre class="console">[core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true [remote “github”] url = git@github.com:git_username/projectname.git fetch = +refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/ push = refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master</pre> You can also do this by typing this into your terminal. <pre class="console">user# git remote add github git@github.com:git_username/projectname.git</pre> <a name="pushcode"></a><h2>Push your code to GitHub</h2> Both essentially do the same thing, but once you’ve defined a remote git repository, you can begin pushing your code to it. Let’s test it out and see if we can push our git repository to GitHub. <pre class="console">user# git push github master Enter passphrase for key ‘/Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa’: # enter your passphrase here updating ‘refs/heads/master’ from 000000000000000000000000000000 to 871b8e6c61bc6fca6ee974bc836d70 Also local refs/remotes/origin/master Generating pack… Counting objects: 18 Done counting 1019 objects. Deltifying 1019 objects… 100% (1019/1019) done Writing 1019 objects… 100% (1019/1019) done Total 1019 (delta 236), reused 0 (delta 0) refs/heads/master: 000000000000000000000000000000 > 871b8e6c61bc6fca6ee974bc836d70</pre> That’s it! Now go back to your browser and verify that all your files are showing up. Go back to <a href="http://github.com" target="_blank">http://github.com</a> and you should see “Your Repositories” to the right-hand side with your project directly underneath it. Click on your project and you should see your files. <a href="http://www.jaisenmathai.com/blog/2008/04/10/how-to-get-started-hosting-your-git-repository-using-github-and-osx/" target="_blank">Comment on the original blog post</a>. 2008-04-11T00:19:23-07:00 30 setting-up-a-remote-repository-using-github-and-osx Setting up a remote repository using GitHub and OSX

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