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Git is a widely used software version control system that is used when people in groups develop software together. Most open source and proprietary sofware software systems are developed with some sort of version control system, with Git being the most popular.
At Rhodes, many professors use Git as a framework for distributed skeleton code and collecting programming assignments.
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The documentation here is a small glimpse into programming with Git – enough to get started. For a more detailed treatment, check out the free online book: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 |
Creating a Github Account
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$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
This will prompt you First, this command will ask you to enter a filename to store the key into. You can just press enter as the default file is the one we want (/home/<username>/.ssh/id_rsa). Next, you will be prompted to make a passphrase. This is similar to a password, but should be longer and stronger. Make it something you won’t forget, but don’t worry – you won’t be typing it all the time like a normal password.
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