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Git-init

gitinit is a bash script for creating an empty repo and pushing an intial commit to github.

Feature

• create private repository
• save license file
• configure git config on repository basis
• password-less operation

Installation | Setup | Usage

Installation

Setting gitinit is as simple cloning the repo, saving your SSH key on github, generating "Personal Access Token" and running the script.

Install jq, cli json parser

$ sudo apt instal jq

Clone the repo to your local machine

$ git clone https://github.com/muse-sisay/getGitRepo.git 

create an alias (in ~/.bashrc if you are using BASH)

alias gitinit="bash /path/to/script/script.sh

Setup

Generate SSH key

replace muse-sisay with your Github username. Only used for identification purpose.

$ cd ~/.ssh
$ ssh-keygen -f github-muse-sisay

Follow the Github guide to add your public key to your github account.

Edit ssh config

Add this to your ~/.ssh/config. Replace IdentityFile with the one you created. This will allow you to push commits with out providing a password. Host directive should be github- plus your username github-{username}.

Host github-muse-sisay
    Hostname github.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github-muse-sisay
    IdentitiesOnly yes
    Port 22

Get Personal Access Token

You can get a "personal access token in GitHub" by going to Settings->Developer Settings-> Personal Access Tokens->Generate new token. (select repo scope, or it won't work). # Edit this

Save Access Token

Create ghAccessToken in ~/.ssh and place your access token inside ghAccessToken. Change permission to 600 so that only your user account has read and write access.

$ cd ~/.ssh
$ touch ghAccessToken
$ chmod 600 ghAccessToken

Usage

$ gitinit -l mit sampleRepo

This will create a sampleRepo with MIT License on Github.

$ gitinit -l gpl-3.0 -u abebe workRepo

Will create workRepo with gpl-3.0 License on abebe's Github. If you haven't setup an ssh key-pair and made an edit to ~/.ssh/config .... go ahead folllow setup do it. The Hostname directive in this case would be github-abebe.

$ cd ~/.ssh
$ ssh-keygen -f github-abebe

Host github-abebe
    Hostname github.com
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github-abebe
    IdentitiesOnly yes
    Port 22

TODO

• Securely store Access Token (hopefully it's secure)