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Locking down your GitHub-hosted Domains - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32435134

Desktop app: https://desktop.github.com - https://github.com/desktop/desktop

View raw commit/patch: add .patch to the commit URL, eg https://github.com/AlbertVilaCalvo/Android-Udacity-Popular-Movies/commit/5c1218db157fc6ce5dfd9c9e98f0522c67241963.patch

List of cool features of Git and GitHub - https://github.com/tiimgreen/github-cheat-sheet

Hub CLI - https://github.com/mislav/hub

SSH​

Doing ssh -T git@github.com should say:

Hi AlbertVilaCalvo! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.

Doing cat ~/.ssh/config should show:

Host *.github.com
  AddKeysToAgent yes
  UseKeychain yes
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github_personal

Multiple SSH keys (for different GitHub accounts) on the same computer​

Eg if we have a work GitHub account and want to commit on a personal repository on the work computer.

Resources followed:

Here I assume that I already have the SSH setup for the work GitHub account.

Note that this approach does not use add multiple entries to the ~/.ssh/config file. It's for specific repositories. It has the advantage that you don't need to change how you git clone a repository.

Create the new SSH key for the personal account: ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "mypersonal@email.com" -f github_personal

Copy github_personal.pub with pbcopy < github_personal.pub and add it at the GitHub website at https://github.com/settings/keys.

Add the SSH to keychain permanently with ssh-add github_personal. You'll need to type the passphrase. It will say "Identity added: github_personal (mypersonalemail@gmail.com)"

Update: to avoid the error "ERROR: Permission to AlbertVilaCalvo/XYZ.git denied to AlbertWork. fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists." I've had to add this line to the ~/.zshrc: ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/.ssh/github_personal.

Clone the personal repository you want to contribute to. If you get the error "Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists", clone the repo with a specific SSH key with GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -i ~/.ssh/github_personal" git clone git@github.com:AlbertVilaCalvo/zshrc.git. source

Once the repo is cloned, configure it to use the personal SSH key: git config core.sshCommand 'ssh -i ~/.ssh/github_personal'. I took this from https://stackoverflow.com/a/50746763/4034572

Important: don't forget to set the personal email on that repository, otherwise the work account will appear as a contributor on the personal repository: git config --local user.email mypersonal@email.com

Hide personal email address​

tip

Change the author of the last commit with git commit --amend --reset-author.

Check "Block command line pushes that expose my email" in https://github.com/settings/emails.

To change the email for a particular repository (not globally), go to https://github.com/settings/emails, copy the GitHub-provided noreply email address and then do:

git config user.email "{ID}+{username}@users.noreply.github.com "

You can check the current email with git config [--global] user.email.

Docs:

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Alternatives (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32681319):

Shortcuts​

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/using-github/keyboard-shortcuts

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Browse code in web editor​

Docs: https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/the-githubdev-web-based-editor

CLI​

https://cli.github.com/

https://docs.github.com/en/github-cli

https://github.com/cli/cli