Setting up your git credentials

In your terminal enter these commands without quotes

Enter your Github user name

git config --global user.name "Your Github User Name Here"

Enter the email you used to signup for GitHub

git config --global user.email "your@email.com"

Change the name of the master branch to main (Very Important)

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

Enter in terminal to see the config

git config --list

The terminal should look something like this

git config --list
user.name=Your Github User Name Here
user.email=your@email.com
init.defaultbranch=main

Generating an SSH key

Remain in the terminal and enter these commands

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C yourgithub@email.com

Hit Enter until the process is done

In the terminal open the file id_ed25519.pub inside the .ssh directory within your Home directory with the following command.

cat id_ed25519.pub

and copy paste the code to your github account by adding the ssh key the link here.

https://github.com/settings/keys

Click New ssh key button Fill out the required fields and click the add ssh key button

Once the ssh key is added, when you try to push/create a repository a popup with ask to add your system to github fully type yes.

Enjoy being connected to github via ssh