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Tuesday 13 December 2016

Generating SSH keys and adding it to github.

                                                            So guys if you're on windows just like me and you are using git and want to push changes to remote repository on github without typing email and password everytime then first y'all have to generate SSH keys same as we generated in linux and then add the generated public key on the GITHUB account so we don't have to provide email password everytime we want to push something on github.

Just run this command to generate the SSH keys locally first.

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "YOUR@EMAIL.com"

This command basically creates a directory named .ssh to go to this directory use this command.

cd ~/.ssh

NOTE Those two commands must be ran using git-bash.

After navigating into the directory you will find that it has three files.

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id_rsa  
id_rsa.pub  
known_hosts

Only id_rsa.pub is of our use it is actually the public key and we have to upload the content of the id_rsa.pub file to this github link.

That's it. :D 

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