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GitHub Setup

This tutorial will assume you are working within WSL. Any reference to terminal is just a wsl instance

With VS Code​

  • Click the Profile Icon in the bottom left.

  • Login to your GitHub account

  • Open a new window inside WSL

  • Open the source control tab on the left

  • Clone repo from Github

Installing Github-Cli​

  • copy & paste
  • after installing, you may have to open a new terminal
sudo mkdir -p -m 755 /etc/apt/keyrings && wget -qO- https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null \
&& sudo chmod go+r /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
&& echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null \
&& sudo apt update \
&& sudo apt install gh -y

Create a Github Token​

  • add name, expiry date (till at least after mini project)
  • select the following permissions
  • click generate, but don't close the page

Login to Github Account​

  • inside a terminal:
gh auth login
  • Select "Github.com" when prompted
  • Select either SSH or HTTPS
  • Once Prompted with the options "Login with web browser" or "Paste Authentication token"
    • Choose Paste Authentication Token
    • Paste the token from previous step