Setting up github

Prerequisites

The Baxter Research Robot has been set up in its workspace and any purchased accessories have been installed. Instructions for hardware installation may be found here.
A developer workstation meeting the minimum system requirements is available for use.
The developer workstation has been set up successfully - instructions here.
The developer workstation has been connected to Baxter and connectivity has been validated - instructions here.
You have received your Github credentials from Rethink Robotics. This is available when the Baxter Research Robot is delivered.

If git is not already installed on development workstation, you will need to install it as follows:

$ sudo apt-get install git-core
Github will need your ssh public key.
- Navigate to your ~/.ssh directory and copy the full contents of the id_dsa.pub file to the clipboard.
  - If there is no id_dsa.pub file in this folder, run $ ssh-keygen -t dsa to create one. Simply hit enter when prompted without typing anything to create the files in the correct location.
- Now go to Github and log in with your Rethink provided Github account.
- Go to Account settings (second icon from your account name on the top navigation bar of Github).
- Navigate to the left panel, and click "SSH Keys".
- Now click the "Add SSH key" botton on the upper right of the SSH Keys page.
- Enter a name for the key and paste the contents of your clipboard into the "Key" section, then save the key.
Now make a new dir called "git" somewhere on your system outside of any other pre-existing respository directories. Make sure you are not in any init shell for any systems.
Set up your git credentials on the Development Workstation as follows.

$ git config --global user.email <[email protected]>

$ git config --global user.name <firstName lastName>