Create a Project from Scratch on Github and use Public Keys to Push and Pull Code

There might be more clever ways to do this but this is my current setup.

(This assumes you're using a Public/Private Key pair to interface with github)

This is what I usually do to start working on a project from scratch on my machine while keeping the code on github, using Public keys so I don't need to type in my username and password every time.

• Create the Repo on github

For the sake of example, say your username is johndoe and your new repo is called my-repo

• Create an empty directory on your machine and cd to it

(Any name will do.)

    $ mkdir my-directory
    $ cd my-directory

• Init a git project on the directory

  $ git init
  

• Add a git remote pointing to your project on github

  $ git remote add github git@github.com:johndoe/my-repo.git
  

• Done.

Now you can push and pull code to and from github (i.e. git push github master) without the need of providing you username and password every time.