SSH & HTTPS of GitHub repo

GitHub repo downloads

HTTPS

Just copy the repo’s link and type it in the command line

git clone https://github.com/xxx/xxx.git

SSH

• Before the following, you can back-up your ssh key before.
  • For windows users, go to C:\users\xxx\.ssh\, then input cp id_rsa id_rsa.bak and cp id_rsa.pub id_rsa.pub.bak.

• Open the command line and input

  ssh-keygen -t rsa -C xxx@xxx.com
  

  Here xxx@xxx.com is your GitHub email account. Then press the Enter, and you will successfully create the public key.

• Open the GitHub, go to settings -> SSH -> new SSH key. Input the title (whatever, it doesn’t matter), and put all the contents in the id_rsa.pub into the box.

• Then clone the repo by git clone git@github.com:xxxx/xxx/.git.