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Source Control

Git Installation

https://git-scm.com/downloads

Check the installation
git --version

SSH Key Generation

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

By default, the above command creates id_ed25519* files in your {USER_HOME}\.ssh directory.

If you chose other options (e.g. filename), please change them accordingly below.

Add SSH Key to your GitHub account

  1. Copy public key
    1. Get the contents of the public key
    cat ~\.ssh\id_ed25519.pub
    1. Copy the string from the above command's output
  2. Go to https://github.com
  3. Login to your account
  4. Go Profile → Settings → SSH and GPG Keys → New SSH key
  5. Paste your public key
  6. Save
  7. Authorize your SSH key with SSO if you are using GitHub Enterprise SSH Key SSO Authorize