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Username or email address. Password Forgot password? New to GitHub? Create an account. GitHub is where people build software. More than 100 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance.
You can view all of your settings and where they are coming from using: $ git config --list --show-origin. Your Identity. The first thing you should do when you install Git is to set your user name and email address. This is important because every Git commit uses this information, and it’s immutably baked into the commits you start creating:
If you click on the “Set up two-factor authentication” button, it will take you to a configuration page where you can choose to use a phone app to generate your secondary code (a “time based one-time password”), or you can have GitHub send you a code via SMS each time you need to log in.
When you connect to a GitHub repository from Git, you will need to authenticate with GitHub using either HTTPS or SSH. Note: You can authenticate to GitHub using GitHub CLI, for either HTTP or SSH. For more information, see gh auth login .
For more information about authenticating with GitHub CLI, see gh auth login. If you authenticate without GitHub CLI, you must authenticate with a personal access token. When Git prompts you for your password, enter your personal access token. Alternatively, you can use a credential helper like Git Credential Manager. Password-based ...
In the user interface on GitHub.com, you can perform the whole "GitHub flow" for contributing to a repository, including creating a branch or fork, editing and previewing files, committing your changes, and creating a pull request.
GitHub Desktop will open your default browser. To authenticate to GitHub, in the browser, type your GitHub.com credentials and click Sign in. Alternatively, if you were already signed in to GitHub, follow the prompts to return to GitHub Desktop to finish authenticating.
You can change the name that is associated with your Git commits using the git config command. The new name you set will be visible in any future commits you push to GitHub from the command line. If you'd like to keep your real name private, you can use any text as your Git username.
GitHub CLI is an open source tool for using GitHub from your computer's command line. When you're working from the command line, you can use the GitHub CLI to save time and avoid switching context.
