Git For Class Cheatsheet

Getting Git Initially Setup

• Create a github.com account
• make sure git is installed git --version
• configure github commiter info

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "name@email.com"

• Add an SSH-Key for your github account
  • navigate to .ssh folder cd ~/.ssh
  • create an ssh key in the .ssh folder with the right encryption for github security and you github account email

  ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@example.com"

  • get the contents of the public key cat key.pub
  • copy the public key into github.com at settings > ssh & gpg keys

Git For Homework

Creating the Repo

1. create an empty folder mkdir <name>
2. cd into that folder cd <name>
3. initialized the repo git init

Committing your work

1. add files to staging git add .
2. commit git commit -m "message"

Push work to github.com

1. Create a new repo github.com
2. copy the url https/ssh for the repo
3. add the remote repo to your local repo git remote add origin <url>
4. push up the commits git push origin main or git push origin master

After remote is setup you just to send updates

1. git add .
2. git commit -m "message"
3. git push origin main

misc commands

1. see the status of your repo git status
2. see what branch you are on git branch
3. see previous commits git log
4. see list of remotes git remote -v
5. remove the origin remote so you can readd it git remote rm origin