How do I connect to and clone to a repository hosted in github through git-cola?

[John Buczkowski]

Hi:

I am a total Newbie to git-cola (and the world of Linux).

I've recently installed Linux in a VM and have installed the git-cola UI.

We have an existing repository hosted on github: https://github.com/companyname/project

I would like to use the git-cola UI to connect with the repository.

I'm really not sure how to clone a copy of the repository through git-cola.

I assume that once I'm "connected" I can clone, push commits and sync with the latest changes in the repository.

Can someone point me in the right direction to get started?

Thanks,

JohnB

[David Aguilar]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 11:09:14PM -0800, John Buczkowski wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am a total Newbie to git-cola (and the world of Linux).
>
> I've recently installed Linux in a VM and have installed the git-cola UI.
> We have an existing repository hosted on github: https://github.com/companyname
> /project

See this page first and get your public key uploaded to github.com.

https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys#platform-linux

> I would like to use the git-cola UI to connect with the repository.
> I'm really not sure how to clone a copy of the repository through git-cola.
> I assume that once I'm "connected" I can clone, push commits and sync with the
> latest changes in the repository.

Once you have your public key uploaded then you can use the
g...@github.com:companyname/project.git URL and clone it using
either the GUI or the command line. e.g.

git clone g...@github.com:companyname/project.git

git-cola will prompt you for a repository if it can't find one
when starting up. That dialog also has an option to clone an
existing repository. You can enter your g...@github.com:.... URL there.
--
David