Well that's 20 pages because it's all about setting up SSH, not just how to generate keys. For that, check out this guide guide: http://help.github.com/key-setup-redirect
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Galaxy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On May 24, 10:50 am, Lee Hambley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 20 pages of documentation for a key - are you kidding? > > > > No. > > > > Keys are valuable - probably more valuable than the keys you have in real > > life depending what project you are working on - the better you > understand > > that, and how keys work - the better you will be at your job. > > > > > Huh. I've never used ssh keys on a job. > > I'm probably going to need this information maybe once every two years > and at that rate I'm worried that I'll lose my understanding. I can't > remember which tutorial got me the result I wanted last time, so I > can't easily compare it to anything. > > Is the documentation covering Windows? It doesn't seem to be. Quote: > > While I try to keep the HOWTO as generic and inter-operable as > possible, > it could happen that I write an example that is not working on your > *NIX, > please let me know. > > I'm not confident in my ability to learn *NIX concepts and then relate > those to how I use Windows. I've never been good at using unix. > > I have a Github account and Git on my machine that I installed using > msysgit. I don't have the context menus "Git Gui Here" or "Git Bash > Here" -- for some reason msysgit installer never prompted me for > those. I searched around and noticed that another had that problem. > This may be totally irrelevant -- or not. > http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=231 > > I'm trying to recall how I got it running last time and I think it was > a page on Github website that explained keys for Windows. > > > Short answer: Generate and distribute a new one. > > > > Got it. I have puttygen and pageant. I think there was a tutorial on > Github for how to tell git what the key is and tell github what the > key (or keys?) are. > > Thanks for the help -- I'm trying not to whine -- I just don't > understand this stuff well. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GitHub" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<github%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en.
