GitHub

Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science ...

— Merlin, The Coder

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Prerequisites

• W1002 The Client, the Server, and the Shell
• W1004 Emacs
• W1005 Digital Journal
• W1006 Source Control

Configuration

In order to use these commands with a remote repository, it's best to cache your credentials. On the command line, execute:

jane-williams@codermerlin:~$ git config --global credential.helper 'store --file ~/.git-credentials'

jane-williams@codermerlin:~$ git config --global credential.useHttpPath true

In order to squelch the warning that occurs while pushing, execute:

jane-williams@codermerlin:~$ git config --global push.default matching

References

• Git (Wikipedia)