How To: Setup GitHub to work with your local Git
Sep 23, 2021
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Set user name and email on your local git.
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NOTE: Make sure the username and email is the same used for the GitHub repo shared with the team for the project.
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git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
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Check config
git config --list
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Clone the GitHub repository
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This may work for you
git clone https://github.com/<GITHUB ADDRESS>-
If the above code does not work for you (possibly on Windows or an older version of git), try this
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FOR PRIVATE GITHUB REPOSITORY: You MUST include the username with collaboration permissions (i.e. the GitHub username you are using for this project)
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The the syntax will be https://<YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME>@github.com/<GITHUB ADDRESS>
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- Check remote origin (be in the git repo folder locally on your machine)
git remote show origin
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List branches
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Git local branches only
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git branch-
Git remote branches
git branch -r-
Git all...
