Create Project einztein.sandbox on Github.com

Creating open source repository on github.com, name as einztein.sandbox.

Basic Information

Here are the basic information about this project:

Homepage on github: http://github.com/seanchen/einztein.sandbox

SSH URL: git@github.com:seanchen/einztein.sandbox.git

HTTPS URL: https://seanchen@github.com/seanchen/einztein.sandbox.git

Read-Only URL: git://github.com/seanchen/einztein.sandbox.git

Set up local git environment

There are various ways to set up your local git environment, so you could commit your changes to the github repository.  The easy way will be using the RSA keys.

• generate rsa key pairs by using ssh-keygen, all keys will saved in filder ~/.ssh.
• send the pub key to github.com repository.

Basic git Usage

Clone the source code to a new directory

git clone git@github.com:seanchen/einztein.sandbox.git

Set your user name and email address globally, the value is actually save in file .gitconfig in your home folder.  You could directly edit the file too.

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email you@example.com

Or set the user name and email address for each commit

git commit --amend --author='Your Name youremail@email.com'

We need push to update the remote repository:

git push git@github.com:seanchen/einztein.sandbox.git

Exclusive help about github

The details help documentation about github.com could be found here: http://help.github.com

More details about git

Git Reference Guide: http://gitref.org/index.html

Creating Branches: http://www.zorched.net/2008/04/14/start-a-new-branch-on-your-remote-git-repository/