Guide to Managing GitHub Repositories Using the Terminal

✨️ Guide to Managing GitHub Repositories Using the Terminal
- File Size Limits on GitHub
- Individual File Size Limit: 100 MB allowed to be pushed to the repository.
- Git Large File Storage (LFS): For files larger than 100 MB, GitHub recommends using Git LFS, which supports files up to 2 GB. Git LFS requires additional setup and has its own storage and bandwidth limitations.

✨️ Login and push files from termianl:
- Create and Set Up an SSH Key
- Generate a New SSH Key
- ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"
	-t ed25519: Specifies the type of key to create. ed25519 is a modern and secure choice.
	-C "[email protected]": Adds a label (your email) to the key for identification.

✨️ Copy publicey and paste in github ssh
- cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
- Copy the entire output.

✨️ Add the SSH Key to GitHub
- go to https://github.com/settings/keys or
- Navigate to Settings > SSH and GPG keys.
- Click New SSH key.
- Paste your copied SSH key into the "Key" field.
- Give it a descriptive title (e.g., "My Laptop Key").
- Click Add SSH key.
- Direct Link to Add SSH Key

✨️ Clone a Repository
- To clone an existing repository using SSH
- git clone [email protected]:username/repository.git
- Replace username/repository with your repository’s path.
- For example: git clone [email protected]:bobo2/store.git

✨️ Navigate into the cloned repository:
- cd repository
- To copy files into your repository directory:
- cp /path/to/your/file ./file

Stage the files for commit:
- git add .
- git status
- git commit -m "Add description of changes"

✨️ Configure Git User Information
- Set your global Git username and email:
- git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
- git config --global user.name "your profile name"

✨️ Push Changes to GitHub
- git push origin main

✨️ Install GH
- Install GitHub CLI
- sudo apt install gh

✨️ Login and Authenticate with GitHub CLI
- gh auth login
- Choose SSH as the authentication method.
- Follow the prompts to generate and paste a personal access token. You can create a token here.

✨️ Create a new public repository with:
- gh repo create my-new-repo --public --description "A description of my new repository"
- or
- gh repo create test123 --public

✨️ Clone the New Repository and Add Files
- gh repo clone temp-storage
- or
- git clone https://github.com/username/temp-storage.git

✨️ Navigate into the repository directory:
- cd temp-storage
- cp ~/files.txt .

✨️ Initialize and Push Your Code
- git init
- git add .
- git status
- git commit -m "Initial commit"
- git remote add origin [email protected]:username/repository-name.git
- git remote -v
- git push -u origin main

✨️ Delete a File from a Repository
- Navigate to your repository directory:
- cd repository

✨️ Remove the file:
- git rm path/to/file

✨️ Commit the change:
- git commit -m "Remove file"

✨️ Push the changes to GitHub:
- git push origin main

✨️ Delete a Repository Using GitHub CLI
- Ensure you are authenticated with gh.
- gh repo delete username/repository --confirm

✨️ List all repositories
- gh repo list username

Work with existing repository
- check for remote (working repository)
- git remote -v
- Change remote
- cd test-repository
- gh repo fork