The Hitchiker's Guide to Git, C++, and Sublime Text on Windows

by Jacob Jenkins, Mac user.

This guide is for COP 3503 at the University of Florida.

Overview

First, get these installers:

msysGit (Git-1.9.0-preview20140217.exe): here
GitHub for Windows: here
Sublime Text 2: here

Git on the Command Line

Installing msysGit for Fun and Profit!

msysGit provides a command line installation of Git, and includes some other crucial tools like gcc (The GNU C Compiler, found on the Ubuntu installations in the CISE lab computers) and make.

Double-click Git-1.9.0-preview20140217.exe and hit next all the way to Sunday.

The installer will probably open a killer .rtf file with release notes which you can ignore.

Using msysGit with Github

Generating a Key

Press the Windows key and type "Git Bash" without quotes. A command line window should open.

In the newly opened window type ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]" replacing [email protected] with your actual email, unless your email address is in fact [email protected] which is totally cool by me.

Next you should see a message similiar to this one. Follow along with the bracketed [blahblahblah] statements.

Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/c/Users/you/.ssh/id_rsa): [Press Enter]
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): [Type a passphrase]
Enter same passphrase again: [Type passphrase again]
Your identification has been saved in /c/Users/you/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /c/Users/you/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
01:0f:f4:3b:ca:85:d6:17:a1:7d:f0:68:9d:f0:a2:db [email protected]

Next type eval $(ssh-agent) and then ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa.

Now we need to get that key we generated into Github.

Getting to Github

First we need to copy that key we generated.

Navigate to C:\Users\your_name.ssh\
Right click id_rsa and click Open With...
Select Notepad.
Copy the contents of the file.

Next we need to add it to Github.

Login to Github.
Go to your Account Settings.
Click SSH Keys in the left sidebar.
Click Add SSH key
Paste your key into the "Key" field
Click Add key
Confirm the action by entering your GitHub password
Profit?!?!

You did it!

Using mysyGit's Unix Utilities

Unix pretty much kicks ass. Necessary Video.

msysGit comes jam packed with tons of Unix fun.

Example commands:

cd changes directory cd ~/some_directory/.
ls lists all files in your current directory.
ls -a lists all files in your current directory including those beginning with a period.
gcc compiles C programs.
g++ compiles C++ programs.
gdb a killer command line debugger.
git allows you to use git on the command line.
make builds programs using the Makefile in a directory.

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