Setting up github

Creating an account

First go to github and create an account

Download git

Next, following the instructions at set-up-git to download and setup git.

Set your username and password in ~/.gitconfig

It is important to set your username and password

# Sets the default name for git to use when you commit

git config --global user.name "Your Name Here

# Sets the default email for git to use when you commit

git config --global user.email "your_email@youremail.com

A sanity check to make sure that has worked is to check the ~/.gitconfig file

cat ~/.gitconfig

#Password caching The instructions in [Set Up Git](The instructions are slightly incorrect, if you do need to install credential-osxkeychain using curl, then the url domain is actually 'https://' not 'http:'. # Download the helper curl -s -O https://github-media-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/osx/git-credential-osxkeychain) are slightly incorrect.

If you do need to install credential-osxkeychain using curl, then the url domain is actually 'https://' not 'http:'.

# Download the helper curl -s -O https://github-media-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/osx/git-credential-osxkeychain