Create an ssh key to use with github (Linux)

configure-git.md

Check if you have name and email

git config user.name
git config user.email

Set your name and email

git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email john_doe@example.com

Set your default editor for writing commit messages

git config --global core.editor "The editor you want"

create-ssh-key.md

1. Make sure that you have a directory named ".ssh" in your home directory, so the full path is "~/.ssh", if you don't have the directory just create it
2. cd to ".ssh"
3. Then run the following command:

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@example.com"

4. Adding your SSH key to the ssh-agent (this works with bash, so if you're using fish just run bash and run the command)

eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

5. Add your SSH private key to the ssh-agent

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Now add the ssh key to GitHub

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5. cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub copy what's inside the file and paste it into the key