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creation date: 2024-08-22
modification date: Thursday 22nd August 2024 11:56:21
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# Preamble
### Notable Links

## What are we doing?
Learning how to use Github. This will probably be the easiest way to keep files synced between working at home and working on my laptop. This way, I can also just pull files down to really any machine and make things shareable. I also want to keep my neovim config up there in the cloud

## Why are we doing it?
For code based things, transferring to and from the server is annoying. Maybe Git is the answer.
## Who cares?
Me, for now.

# Learning to Use **Github**
## Preliminary Setup
Create a ssh key on the terminal if you don't have one:
```bash
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "dane.sabo@pitt.edu"
```
Copy the contents of this key:
```bash
cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
```
Notably, the public key is .pub. Do NOT copy the private key.
Upload this key to GitHub- go to settings>SSH and GPG keys>add the new key
Then add they key to the local SSH agent:
```bash
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
sshadd ~/.ssh/id_ed5519
```

## Using an existing repository
```bash
# Cloning a Repository
git clone git@github.com:danesabo/example_repo.git

#Staging and Committing Changes
git add . #adds all files
git commit -m "Commit message here!"

#Push the changes to GitHub
git push origin master #or main
```