How to setup Git Optional Getting your existing configuration from another machine git config --list Setting up Git User Input read -p 'Your Name (As you want it shown in the commit log): ' yourName Email Input read -p 'Email Address (123456789+USERNAME@users.noreply.github.com): ' userEmail Install Git if ! [ -x "$(command -v git)" ]; then sudo apt install git -y; fi Setup Identity git config --global user.name "$yourName" git config --global user.email "$userEmail" Use nano editor git config --global core.editor "nano -w" Only push current branch git config --global push.default simple Generate a new key pair ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "$(git config --global --get user.email)" -P "" -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa Start ssh in the background eval $(ssh-agent -s) Add new key to local ssh ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa Show the pub key cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub Copy and paste the key into Github See adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account
