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Manthan Ankolekar
Manthan Ankolekar

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Set up SSH key for GitLab on Windows

Installing Git from https://git-scm.com/

Checking git version :

git --version
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Configuring Git

git config --global user.name "First name Last name"
git config --global user.email “you@example.com”
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Example :

git config --global user.name "Manthan Ank"
git config --global user.email "manthan.ank@gmail.com"
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Generating an SSH key

ssh-keygen
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Get contents from file

cat C:\Users\manth/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
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Copy content(key) from it and paste it in https://gitlab.com/-/profile/keys and add key

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