How To Developer : Git

Install

For Windows OS, download and install Cygwin¹.
Download and install the latest Git SCM² for your operating system.
Open a Terminal (For Windows OS use Cygwin or Git Bash) and run the following commands to configure your Git username and email. These details are important because they will be associated with any commits that you create.
```
$ git config --global user.name "Titi Dupond"
$ git config --global "[email protected]"
```
Many Git servers authenticate using ssh public keys. Check to make sure you don’t already have one. By default, a user’s ssh keys are stored in that user’s ~/.ssh directory. You can easily check to see if you have a key already by going to that directory and listing the contents.
```
$ ls ~/.ssh
id_rsa        id_rsa.pub    known_hosts
```
Generate an ssh key if you dont have one with the following command.
```
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"
```
Sign up into your Git Server (GitHub or GitLab) and add your public ssh key from the public file (id_rsa.pub) to the SSH Keys management tool.
If your network is behind a proxy and git clone command don't work, you may need to configure Git to use a proxy³.

¹. Cygwin Installation, Cygwin, https://cygwin.com/install.html ↩

². "Git SCM Downloads" , Git SCM, https://git-scm.com/downloads ↩

³. "Configure Git to use a proxy", GitHub documentation, https://gist.github.com/evantoli/f8c23a37eb3558ab8765 ↩