In this blog post, I am writing how you can set up git a version control system in your computer system and connect and authenticate it with GitHub.
Open terminal and check if git is already installed
git --version
if it is already installed, git version will be the output:
git version 2.5.0
If not installed Download and install git from
https://git-scm.com/download/linux
you will find the command for your distro accordingly, some common are listed here:
fedora
yum install git
or
dnf install git
debian/ubuntu
apt-get install git
If git is already installed we can get/update latest version of git by git itself
git clone https://github.com/git/git
Setting Git username
In terminal, lets setup username
git config --global user.name "username"
This will be written in a file /.gitconfig
You can check username with
git config --global user.name
Setting email address
in terminal add your email address
git config --global user.email "email@example.com"
confirm by
git config --global user.email
note: we are adding username and email address for every repository on our computer
Authenticating with GitHub from Git
There are two ways to connect with Github from our computer with git.
- With HTTPS
- With ssh
Here I am explaining about the HTTPS
We can push/commit/pull or do any operations on our github repo.
- go to github.com
- create a new repository
in terminal,
Initialize git
git init
add the changes
git add .
commit changes
git commit -m "your message"
add remote by
git remote add origin https://github.com/username/repository_name.git
we can get origin address in repo’s setting too while creating repo
after adding origin,we are ready to push to github
git push -u origin master