using-github

Windows

First steps

Based on this website

1. Download and intall git: Available here

2. Create a new folder, right click on it and choose 'Git bash here'

3. Configure your user name and email

git config --global user.name username
git config --global user.email email

4. Initialize git with

git init

5. Testing commits

touch test.txt
git add .
git commit -m "First commit"

6. Link the ssh key to your email

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C email

Press enter or choose in which folder you wish to save the ssh key and set (or not) a passphrase

7. Go to your github settings and then to SSH and GPG Keys. Click on New SSH Key, give it a title and pass the key you just created on the above step. It can be found using the notepad ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub command on bash.

8. Go back to git Bash and type

ssh -T git@github.com

Choose yes then type your password. If everything works out fine, the message "You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access. " will appear

9. To clone a repository in your local machine, click on Code --> SSH and copy the link

10. Then, git bash on tha folder you want to clone the repository to and type

git remote add origin git@github.com:user/repo_name.git

change user and repo_name!

Basic commands

1. Update the folder in your computer

git push

2. Commit and pull

git add . 
git commit -m 'comment'
git pull origin branch_name

3. Change branch

git checkout <existing_branch>
git checkout -b <new_branch> (if branch does not exist)

SmartGit

Download

Erro: fatal: remote origin already exists.

run git push -u origin master on terminal or

git remote rm origin
git remote add origin https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git

Create a remote repo from a local folder:

Follow these steps

 git init
 gh repo create <repo name> --public --source=. --remote=upstream

Git Hub tutorial

git add .
git commit -m 'm'
git branch -M main
git remote add origin git@github.com:user/repo_name.git
git push origin main