Post date: Oct 09, 2010 1:44:7 PM
Installing Git allows you to clone other's repositories, and create a repository on your own system. You can use GitHub to create an online repository, accessible from anywhere. A paid account may create public or private repositories, limited to those you give access to. A free account may only create public repositories, accessible by everyone.
Go to http://github.com/plans and select the type of plan you're interested in.
Enter account information:
Username (your_id is an obvious choice)
Email (not shared, so feel free to use your main email address)
Password (Very important, don't re-use a password from an insecure site like a message board)
Click "Create Account".
Click "Tell us about yourself".
Public Profile (All entires are visible to everyone, so think carefully. This is optional.)
Name
Email (How about using a dedicated gmail account?)
Website (How about using a dedicated Google site?)
Company
Location
Click "Update Information" to publish your changes
Email addresses (private)
Add your dedicated gmail account here, in addition to your main email account.
SSH Public Keys (private?)
Upload public keys from any user accounts that will modify Git repositories.
Click "Add another public key"
Title: Description of public key, i.e. your_id@hostname
Key: Open your PUBLIC keyfile (id_rsa.pub), copy the contents, and paste here
Click "Add key". It's added.
Copy/paste GitHub's RSA fingerprint. You'll need to reference it when you connect to github the first time.
Job Profile (public)
You can advertise yourself here, there's even an "Available for hire" checkbox.
Click "Update Job Profile".
You can associate a picture with your account(s) by signing up at gravatar.com. One gravatar account can control separate icons for each email account.
Before you upload your project to GitHub, you'll need a local git repository for it. Example:
Start MinGW Shell
cd project_name
git init
git add *
git commit -m "Start project_name repository"
Remember, these files and commit comments will be publicly readable after pushing to public repository.
Log in to GitHub, and click the "Dashboard" link at the top. On the right is "Your Repositories".
Click "New Repository".
Enter the project description:
Project Name
Description
Homepage (Use that dedicated Google site!)
Click "Create Repository".
Git gives instructions on how to push your local repository to your new public repository:
git remote add origin git@github.com:your_id/project_name.git
git push origin master
If this is your first time connecting, you should verify the RSA key fingerprint, then enter "yes".
If you haven't run sshagent.sh, enter your SSH key passphrase.
Return to the GitHub webpage, and click Continue to go to your public repository.
Every time you run " git commit -m 'Comment' ", you are creating a version of your project. In between commits, you can run "git add filename" to add/update a file, and "git rm filename" to remove it from the project. The removed file will remain in earlier "commits", and not shown in the latest version.
Here's an example, creating a README file, adding it, committing changes to repository, then pushing it to GitHub:
vi README
project_name: Reads input, processes it, then outputs data in desired format.
This project is dedicated to Mom and Dad. Also, my cat Snickerdoodle. You can see the project page at http://www.github.com/your_id/project_name . This is a test, this is only a test.
This project is released under the CYOL v2. All rights reserved. Check us out on facebook and twitter!
git add README
git commit -m "Created a README file so Git would stop bothering me"
git push origin master
If you want to support multiple remote repositories, you should give them different names. Rename "origin" to "github":
git remote rename origin github
Now, when you want to push to github after commiting, you would use this command:
git push github master
If you want to cover the basics: http://gitref.org/. You should, I don't know Git very well right now!
GitHub has a nice guide on adding/removing remove repositories: http://help.github.com/remotes/
To remove sensitive data you accidentally commited: http://help.github.com/removing-sensitive-data/