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DEPRECATED: This repository is now frozen - please see individual lesson repositories.
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Create file for setting windows credential for Git #665

Closed acyleung closed 9 years ago

acyleung commented 9 years ago

I have created an instruction guide for setting windows credential for git in the last bootcamp I helped out in Vancouver. For now I put this in the misc directory but please move this to where you find is more appropriate.

wking commented 9 years ago

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:47:35AM -0700, Andy Leung wrote:

  • Create file for setting windows credential for Git

See also the related discussion in swcarpentry/windows-installer#18.

rgaiacs commented 9 years ago

Could we use SSH at Windows? If yes, I'm -1 to have this in our material because will be another piece of software that we will have to "maintain".

ethanwhite commented 9 years ago

Thanks for this @acyleung! This is certainly really useful for day to day work after the workshop. That said, my general feeling on this is that for the purposes of workshops it's best to avoid system specific instructions as much as possible. We don't tend to push and pull so many times that we really need to handle storing user names and passwords (and most of the times I've seen git taught the instructors have just had the students re-enter their login information.

In response to @r-gaia-cs: yes, you can certainly use SSH on Windows and setting them up is the same in GitBash as it is from other terminals.

gvwilson commented 9 years ago

@ethanwhite Should we merge or close?

ethanwhite commented 9 years ago

Closing based on my argument about not wanting OS specific instructions to follow during workshops and @r-gaia-cs's argument about extra maintenance. That said I think this could be a valuable addition to extra material outside of the main lesson.