Scripts for setting up my dev environment

This is where I will be setting up scripts which will hopefully automate the set-up of my dev environment in the future.

Setting up Github and private/public key pairs

Unfortunately this part cannot be automated yet (or at least I haven't found out a way to automate it yet). Thankfully it's pretty easy.

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com"
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

You will then need to copy/paste the key into your github account.

The following two links were where I learned how to set-up my keys and then add them to my Github account:

• https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent
• https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account

Then you need to configure your local Github username and password.

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Everything else should be automated.

Renaming master to main

For a variety of reasons, it seems appropriate to change the "master" branch to the "main" branch. Thankfully this is very easy to do. You can even create a new branch based off of master through the Github interface. You will need to run git pull to pull in the new branch if you created it through Github.

Once you've made your new main branch the default branch, you can delete the old master branch.

• To delete the branch locally run, git branch -d master.
• To delete the branch on Github, run git push origin --delete master.
• To reset HEAD, git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main. See here for more details.
• To delete stale branches, git remote prune origin. See here for more details.