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Git on Windows

Based on http://github.com/guides/using-git-and-github-for-the-windows-for-newbies

• Installed Git-1.6.3.2-preview20090608.exe from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list
  • Mostly default settings, but I choose "Run Git from the Windows Command prompt" instead of "Bash only"
• Start Git Bash (ex. by right-click on the "Start" button)
• Create private key: ssh-keygen -C "myemail@gmail.com" -t rsa
  • I just hit Enter on all questions
  • Got my key fingerprint
• Set user info:
  • git config --global user.name "My Name"
  • git config --global user.email myemail@gmail.com
  • Note: This if Git configuration, makes "user.name = My Name" and "user.email = myemail@gmail.com"
• Total time: about 2 min

Step by step setup Screenshots

GitHub

Getting code from GitHub

• Right click on a folder, select Git Bash
• git clone git@github.com:csoma/CivicDB-prototype-1.git
  it created a folder called CivicDB-prototype-1 and downloaded the content of the repository
• Also it can be downloaded or browsed on the web: http://github.com/csoma/CivicDB-prototype-1

Note: my first attempt to send files failed - it seams that the outgoing connections to port 22 are blocked.
Error message: ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Bad file number

The solution is http tunnel: Your own tunneling over http or better yet the github http tunnel (article 2)

Links

• Quick Git guide: http://github.com/guides/home
• Git Book
• GitHub in the Government