Changes

You should only need to create a key once, unless you change to another system, or a different Sugar-on-a-Stick drive, or you think your private key was compromised.  If you do it again, you must also add the new key to GitHub as described in the next section.

You should only need to create a key once, unless you change to another system, or a different Sugar-on-a-Stick drive, or you think your private key was compromised.  If you do it again, you must also add the new key to GitHub as described in the next section.

=== Setup Git for Windows 8 ===

=== Setup Git Desktop for Windows 7 or later ===

GitHub is one way you can set up Git on Windows 8. It can be downloaded from [http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/GitHubSetup.exe here]

You can either directly download and install git from [https://git-scm.com/downloads here]

Once downloaded and installed, Git Shell can be used to execute Git commands.

Or you can set up github desktop, which gives you a GUI to do a lot of things. You can download it from [https://desktop.github.com/ here]

=== Add SSH Key ===

=== Add SSH Key ===

If you do not use git on your system for any other project, you can configure git:

If you do not use git on your system for any other project, you can configure git:

  git config -f ~/.gitconfig user.email <email-you-used-for-registering-project>

  git config --global user.email "your_email@example.com"

  git config -f ~/.gitconfig user.name <your-name>

  git config --global user.name "Your name"

You should only need to do this once on a system.

You should only need to do this once on a system.