| Mac Users | Windows Users |
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| Open your terminal | open the Git Bash terminal |
In your terminal, run the following command:
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ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "<your_email_address>"
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cd ~
cd /c/Users/<username>/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "<your_email_address>"
You’ll see a response similar to:
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/user/.ssh/id_ed25519):<press ENTER>
PRESS ENTER and just accept the suggested file and directory.
**Press ENTER again to leave the passphrase empty. DO NOT ENTER A PASSPHRASE
**Press ENTER again to confirm an EMPTY PASSPHRASE.
If successful, you’ll see confirmation of where the ssh-keygen command saved your identification and private key.
To confirm and view existing SSH keys on your machine, run the command :
Run the following command:
ls -al ~/.ssh
You should see something similar like the image below:
(Above are the SSH Keys on my laptop - YOUR FILE NAMES ARE NOT GOING TO BE THE SAME )
We will copy our public SSH key to a location that saves information in text format.
In your terminal, run the following command:
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pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
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cat id_ed25519.pub | clip
YOU WILL NOT SEE ANYTHING HAPPENING AT THE TERMINAL
**But at this time the contents of the SSH key are in memory in the clipboard and we are ready to add it to GitLab **
Open Google Chrome (or browser you use),
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Navigate to http://gitlab.com and sign in.
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Select your avatar in the upper right corner, and click Settings
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Menu on the left, Click SSH Keys
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Paste the key that you copied into the Key text box.
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Make sure your key includes a descriptive name in the Title text box, such as Work Laptop or Home Workstation.
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Click the Add key button.
See image below on how to paste the key into the text box:
| Mac Users | Windows Users |
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| Cmd+V | Ctrl+V |
You should now be able to clone the class repo, and perform git pull to fetch new data into your computer.
Getting the <repo_url>:
- you will need to login to GitLab,
- navigate to Projects
- Click the "RU-HOU-PROJECT-NAME"
- Click the blue button "Clone", and copy the SSH URL
Now back to the terminal, we will clone the repository for the first time to a dedicated directory:
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We will create a directory inside our Documents folder called "DATABOOTCAMP-MATERIAL" (you can change the name if you'd like), and inside that folder we will clone the class repository.
cd ~
cd Documents
mkdir <DATABOOTCAMP-MATERIAL>
cd <DATABOOTCAMP-MATERIAL>
git clone <repo_url_link>
Gitlab "READ MORE : How to clone a repository documentation"
To pull/fetch new data to your local computer, navigate to the folder location we specified above:
cd Documents/<DATABOOTCAMP-MATERIAL>/<ru-hou-some-long-folder-name>
git pull
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NOTE: You will need to remember the passphrase you created for your ssh key. If you've accidentally created a passphrase for a git SSH key that requires you to type it for each git pull and git push you can just reset the password to blank by following this next sequence.
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ssh-keygen -p -f <ssh_key_filename>
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### Make sure to navigate to the folder location where the ssh keys are stored in your PC
cd /c/Users/<username>/.ssh
### then view the list of files on the .ssh folder
ls -la
### Once you know the filename for the SSH key you created with a passphrase and
### it is the one you added to Gitlab, you can run the following command:
ssh-keygen -p -f <ssh_key_filename>
Enter file in which the key is (/home/username/.ssh/<ssh_key_filename>): press Enter
Enter old passphrase: <old_passphrase>
Enter new passphrase (empty for no passphrase): <press_enter_to_leave_empty>
Enter same passphrase again: <press_enter_to_leave_empty>
You should now see a response like: Your identification has been saved with the new passphrase.
DONE!
You should now be ready to perform git push or git pull from GitLab without being asked for a passphrase every time!