Integrating GitHub Enterprise With SSH and Tokens

Quick Start Guide

Log into GitHub.yourOrganisation.com enterprise and request getting access to the organization.

Fork the GitHub yourOrganisation-API Repository to your GitHub Account.

SSH

Checking for existing SSH keys Lists the files in your .SSH directory, if they exist.

akhilesh@AKHILESHPC MINGW64 /
$ ls -al ~/.ssh
ls: cannot access '/c/Users/akhilesh/.ssh': No such file or directory

Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent

akhilesh@AKHILESHPC MINGW64 /

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "akhilesh@yourOrganisation.com"
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/c/Users/akhilesh/.ssh/id_rsa):
Created directory '/c/Users/akhilesh/.ssh'.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /c/Users/akhilesh/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /c/Users/akhilesh/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

The key fingerprint is:

SHA256:GENERATED RSA XXXXXXXXX20@yourOrganisation.com
The key's randomart image is:
+---[RSA 4096]----+
| .   ==          |
|. o +.+.         |
|.o * * +.        |
| .+ + *.o..      |
|.+   . oSo .     |
|+ O    B..o      |
|.B =  =.+.       |
|. + .+o.E        |
|   oo..o         |
+----[SHA256]-----+

Adding your SSH key to the SSH-agent:

akhilesh@AKHILESHPC MINGW64 /
$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

Agent pid 10140
akhilesh@AKHILESHPC MINGW64 /
$

To add a new SSH key to your GitHub account, copy the SSH key to your clipboard.

$ clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Go to: https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account/  and follow the steps to add SSH to your GitHub account.

Creating an access token

Go to https://GitHub.yourOrganisation.com/settings/tokens. Follow the step given at: https://help.GitHub.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use/ That token now effectively becomes your password when asked.

Clone GitHub source code

akhilesh@AKHILESHPC MINGW64 /d/yourproject-api09Jun
$ git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPOSITORY
# exp : git clone https://GitHub.yourOrganisation.com/akhilesh/yourproject-api.git
Cloning into 'yourproject-api'...
Username for 'https://GitHub.yourOrganisation.com': akhilesh
#Promt window for Password : PASTE YOUR TOKEN HERE
remote: Counting objects: 3824, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1889/1889), done.
remote: Total 3824 (delta 1899), reused 3824 (delta 1899), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (3824/3824), 4.19 MiB | 193.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1899/1899), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Checking out files: 100% (7164/7164), done.  

Checking out the specific branch

Clone creates the master branch. However, you will have to tell it the specific branch that you want to check out.

akhilesh@AKHILESHPC MINGW64 /d/yourproject-akhilesh
$ cd yourproject

akhilesh@AKHILESHPC MINGW64 /d/yourproject-akhilesh/your project (master)
$ git checkout sprint7
Branch sprint7 set up to track remote branch sprint7 from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'sprint7'
akhilesh@AKHILESHPC MINGW64 /d/yourproject-akhilesh/your project  (sprint7)

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Pushing to a remote

Use git push to push commits made on your local branch to a remote repository.

$ git push  <REMOTENAME> <BRANCHNAME>

Fetch

Use git fetch to retrieve new work done by other people.

$ git fetch remotename

Merge

Merging combines your local changes with changes made by others.

$ git merge remotename/branchname

Pull

Git pull is a convenient shortcut for completing both git fetch and git merge in the same command:

$ git pull remotename branchname

For more details go to https://help.github.com/