Configure gitlab on Mac

1. Install git

• First, open the terminal of the mac and enter the following command to check whether git has been installed on your mac.

git --version

• Surprisingly, git is already installed on my mac!
  
• For the installation of git, you can check the official website download page of the MacOS version of Git: Download for macOS , personally recommend homebrewto install it.
• Configure global user information

git config --global user.name "username" # 设置gitlab的用户名
git config --global user.email "[email protected]" # 设置gitlab的邮箱

2. Configure ssh public key

• git has two communication methods: https and ssh, I like to use ssh
• First check whether ssh is installed locally. The following output indicates that ssh has been installed.

ssh

• Check whether the ssh public key already exists locally. If it appears id_rsaand id_rsa.pubindicates that it already exists, you can skip directly to the step of viewing the public key.

cd ~/.ssh
ls

• Public key generation: Enter the following command and when interactive information appears, keep pressing enter until the public key is generated.

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

• View the public key: Enter the following command to get the specific content of the public key, which ssh-rsastarts with.

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

• Copy the above content and paste it into the input box of gitlab avatar —> settings —> ssh key.

3. Download of the project

• Check the clone link of the project ssh, enter the following command to clone the project to the local

git clone [email protected]