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Subject: Re: [boost] [GitHelp] Sandbox library to GitHub
From: Brian Wood (woodbrian77_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-27 17:10:08


Edward Diener:
>
>On 12/26/2012 5:10 AM, Daniel Pfeifer wrote:
>> 2012/12/26 Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>:
>>>
>>> Perhaps you didn't set up a ssh public key?
>>>
>>> https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys#platform-windows
>>>
>>> You will also have to add the key to TortoiseGit/PuTTY.
>>
>> If you push over HTTPS, you don't need an ssh key.
>
> That sounds like what I want to do. The whole low-level business of
> generating public/private keys, when I already have signed up for GitHub
> with a username/password, seems silly to me. I know the Linux gurus all
> love this kind of intricate stuff, but I do not.

It's one command:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "username_at_[hidden]"

If you have Cygwin installed on Windows you
can use the same command there.

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