Install Git
To install Git in Ubuntu on the command line, open the Terminal by pressing:
Ctrl + Alt + T
The Ubuntu software repository doesn’t give you the latest Git, so I run these 3 lines to get the latest version of Git:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install git
See what version of Git you installed:
git --version
Configure Git
In the following commands, replace “Your Name” with your own name, and replace “you@example.com” with your own email address.
git config --global user.name "Your Name" git config --global user.email you@example.com
Caching your GitHub password in Git
This saves your GitHub password on your local machine so that you don’t have to keep typing it in over and over again. Enabling the “Credential Helper” will, by default, save your password for 15 minutes after the first time you use it.
git config --global credential.helper cache
To change the cache timeout, for example, to save the password for 1 hour (3600 seconds), do this:
git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'
You can change the 3600 to whatever you need (in seconds). For 8 hours, use 28800.
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