It seems you are no longer cool unless you are using Git and Github, so I decided I’d give it a shot with Esenterate. I found Git for Windows Developers to be extremely useful, and I highly recommend reading it if you are thinking about using Git.
Everything was fairly straight forward except for one small detail: I wanted to use Git from both my laptop and my desktop. I generated my public/private key pair on my laptop, then copied it to my desktop, but I wasn’t sure how to associate the pair with my user in gitbash. (yes, I realize that the solution is probably obvious to all you *nix peeps out there; go back to editing your 10,000 config files, please. *smiles*) Without this key correctly associated to your account, you won’t be able to push to Github. After some Googling, I discovered the ssh-add command. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get it to work. I kept getting Could not open a connection to your authentication agent errors. After even more Googling, I found the solution: you need to start ssh-agent, then execute the ssh-add command, like so:
exec ssh-agent bash
ssh-add id_rsa
If everything goes according to plan, you should see a success message like Identity added: id_rsa (id_rsa). You should now be all set to push to Github!
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