Pipe keys to pbcopy instead of opening them in an editor

[drinks]

Under the section 'Continue setting up git' in the readme, a process for opening the public key in a text editor is described. It's way easier to cat the key and pipe to the mac os app pbcopy to put it in your clipboard.

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopy

[desandro]

The training session was eye opening. It was catered towards those with no experience with Git or the command line. While that script is useful, I am thinking it might be better just to eliminate anything to do with the Terminal. Have all the SSH keys stuff taken care of with one AppleScript or something that people can just double click to set up. Enter in email, then passphrase, boom, it's done.

[drinks]

I haven't tried to reproduce it, but I think the github app might have generated and uploaded keys for somebody I was working with recently when they logged in; it would be pretty great if that turns out to be the case.

[desandro]

I do know that GitHub app did automatically read the SSH keys and associate them with their account on github.com

[drinks]

Fancy.

Dan Drinkard

On Friday, March 16, 2012 at 4:44 PM, David DeSandro wrote:

I do know that GitHub app did automatically read the SSH keys and associate them with their account on github.com (http://github.com)

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