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Materials for The Alan Turing Institute's Research Software Engineering course
https://alan-turing-institute.github.io/rse-course/
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Course prerequisites: SSH keys required for Windows setup #140

Open lukehare opened 2 years ago

lukehare commented 2 years ago

At the moment the instructions for generating an SSH key and adding it to your GitHub account are under the "macOS and Linux instructions" section in the course_prerequisites/01_git.md setup notes. I think this is now required for Windows too.

jemrobinson commented 2 years ago

The idea (although I haven't tested it myself) is that if you install GitHub Desktop it will set up the SSH keys for you. Does anyone know whether this is true?

lukehare commented 2 years ago

Ah, OK.

I'm not sure. I know one or two people had to generate keys, but not sure if they had followed the instructions properly. This may not be an issue, so happy to close unless you want to wait until it has been tested?

jemrobinson commented 2 years ago

I'm keen on getting someone to test it on Windows - let's see if we can find any volunteers.

lukehare commented 2 years ago

~Actually, related to this: I was also told that Git Bash no longer comes with GitHub Desktop by default, so maybe this is (part of) the issue.~

Never mind, this is pointed out in the instructions. Just need to test - if I can find an old windows machine I'll give it a go but not sure.