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Engelbert Ebalo
Engelbert Ebalo
3,697 Points
Posted by Engelbert Ebalo
Engelbert Ebalo
3,697 Points

GitHub: 1 User, 2 Computers

I've been developing on my laptop and been pushing to GitHub. I am the only user pushing to my private repo. I would like to start using my other desktop to work on the same project.

Are they any special things I need to do to be able to develop on both machines? any gotchas? I figure there would be issues seeing 2 different machines pushing with the same user account...

thanks in advance

2 Answers

Nephi Shields
Nephi Shields
420 Points
Nephi Shields
Nephi Shields
420 Points

Just add your second machines SSH key (assuming you use them) to your account and you should be set. No gotchas that I know of.

Faizal Heesyam
Faizal Heesyam
8,843 Points
Faizal Heesyam
Faizal Heesyam
8,843 Points

agree with Nephi Shields , just add your second machine SSH keys to your GitHub account, then clone your existing project from the repo, and start working normally. any changes, just commit/push, and from the other machine you can always pull any updates, vice versa. i've been doing it, so far didn't encounter any 'gotcha' moment.