Dummy questions about setting up git on amazon cloud ec2

Question

first of all, apologize for dummy questions that I might throw here. It would be nice if you could point the directions where should I go from here.

I\'m totally new to

Answer 1

The mentioned link by Alex gives a good starting point to setup git on ec2. But I followed a little different approach as mentioned here. link. Direct Quotes from the page:

"Connecting with SSH without a PEM key" : So either you add the ec2 private key and add it as a entity in your ssh authentication agent or create a new ssh key for your user and use that. Steps to be followed are:

Create SSH Key

First up you will need to navigate to your .ssh folder on your local machine :

cd
cd .ssh

if this folder doesn’t exist use mkdir to make it.

Once in your ssh folder on your local machine which should be in /Users/yourusername/.ssh generate your key by executing the following.

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 1024

When prompted enter the file name to save the key enter id_rsa_aws, when prompted to enter a password leave blank.

In your .ssh directory execute the following command and copy the output to paste later.

cat id_rsa_aws.pub

Now connect to you AWS instance using you PEM key

ssh -i path/to/yourkeyname.pem ubuntu@xx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Once in

echo 'the key you copied from id_rsa_aws.pub' >> .ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 640 .ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 750 .ssh

Now you go to your machine and type

cd desired directory
git clone ubuntu@xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:

If you did all the above mentioned steps correct, the only warning you might get is

warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.

That's ok. Now you can copy all your code into the clone directory, and follow the following steps:

git add . 
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push origin master // If working on master branch