GitHub and ssh keys

Make sure Git is installed

1. Set git username (email) and email locally

To set your global commit name and email address run the git config command with the --global option:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "youremail@yourdomain.com"

Once done, you can confirm that the information is set by running: git config --list

These commands save the values in the global configuration file, ~/.gitconfig:

2. Generate a new shh key pair on your machine, then upload the public key to Github

I followed these instructions, creating an ssh key locally, with a passphrase that I stored in my Keepass database.

3. ssh-agent stuff

In the bashrc included in this repo is some code that handles your ssh-agent. I got it from this section of the Arch Linux wiki. Here's the bash code if you need:

if ! pgrep -u "$USER" ssh-agent > /dev/null; then
    ssh-agent -t 1h > "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/ssh-agent.env"
fi
if [[ ! "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]]; then
    source "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/ssh-agent.env" >/dev/null
fi

It was once this:

if ! pgrep -u "$USER" ssh-agent > /dev/null; then
    ssh-agent > ~/.ssh-agent-thing
fi
if [[ "$SSH_AGENT_PID" == "" ]]; then
    eval "$(<~/.ssh-agent-thing)"
fi

4. ssh config

touch ~/.ssh/config and in that file write AddKeysToAgent yes, as per the Arch wiki entry.

Given this setup, you're going to want to use the ssh URL (git@github.com:sts10/terminal_and_vim_settings.git) when cloning down repos from GitHub (as opposed to HTTPS).

Notes/alternative approaches

Alternatively, you could try storing ssh key in KeePassXC database, but I haven't had luck with that in the past.