This action sequence is assembled out of my notes. I repeat it over and over again when setting up repositories on new machine. Current page is to have all this in a structured manner to follow easily. Maybe later Ill just write a program to run every step automatically. In general all this generates public and private key pairs. Then you paste those keys in your GitHub "Deploy key" section. So you can clone and use your repos inside desired machine. With or without write access. Dont forget to replace YOURNAME, YOUR@EMAIL, REPONAME and LOCALUSER with actual data.
| Purpose | Command |
|---|---|
| Define user name and user email globally |
git config --global user.name "YOURNAME" git config --global user.email "YOUR@EMAIL" |
| Create .ssh directory to store your keys and aliases | mkdir ~/.ssh |
| Copy GitHub public fingerprint from | https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/githubs-ssh-key-fingerprints |
| And paste it to | /home/LOCALUSER/.ssh/known_hosts |
| Purpose | Command |
|---|---|
| Generate public and private keys for target repo | ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "GH_YOURNAME_REPONAME" -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_GH_YOURNAME_REPONAME |
| Add generated key to ssh keyring | ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_GH_YOURNAME_REPONAME |
| Config SSH agent aliases. Open /home/LOCALUSER/.ssh/config And paste(append) this |
Host REPONAME Hostname github.com IdentityFile=/home/LOCALUSER/.ssh/id_ed25519_GH_YOURNAME_REPONAME |
| Open /home/LOCALUSER/.ssh/id_ed25519_GH_YOURNAME_REPONAME.pub | Paste its contents in https://github.com/YOURNAME/REPONAME/settings -> Settings -> Deploy keys |
| Now you can clone repo by running command from target folder | git clone git@REPONAME:YOURNAME/REPONAME.git |