# Git

Git (opens new window) is a handy version control system for tracking changes in files and coordinate work across your lab.

# Remote Git repositories on HUNT Cloud

Depending on your lab's security tier, your data controller may allow access to hosted git repository managers such as GitLab (opens new window) and GitHub (opens new window). If so, you will be able to clone remote repositories, for example:

git clone https://github.com/samtools/htslib.git

However, you may notice things do not work when using the git@github.com: format, for example:

git clone git@github.com:samtools/htslib.git

This does not work because Git is using SSH on port 22 which is blocked by default by the firewalls on HUNT Cloud.

Luckily we can tell Git to use a different port, such as port 443, which is open by default. See below how to do this for your favorite hosted git repositories.

# How to access GitHub

Add the following lines to your SSH configuration file ~/.ssh/config on your home machine on HUNT Cloud:

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If the SSH configuration file ~/.ssh/config does not exist, you have to create it.

Host github.com
  Hostname ssh.github.com
  User git
  Port 443
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/git

See GitHub's documentation (opens new window) for more details.

# How to access GitLab

Add the following lines to your SSH configuration file ~/.ssh/config on your home machine on HUNT Cloud:

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If the SSH configuration file ~/.ssh/config does not exist, you have to create it.

Host gitlab.com
  Hostname altssh.gitlab.com
  User git
  Port 443
  PreferredAuthentications publickey
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/git

See GitLab's documentation (opens new window) for more details.

# How to access Bitbucket

Add the following lines to your SSH configuration file ~/.ssh/config on your home machine on HUNT Cloud:

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If the SSH configuration file ~/.ssh/config does not exist, you have to create it.

Host bitbucket.org
  Hostname altssh.bitbucket.org
  User git
  Port 443
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/git

See Atlassian's documentation (opens new window) for more details.

# Set up

# Generate a new SSH key for the connection

  • From your lab-home, generate a new key to be used with your git-repository manager: ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/git. You may change the key-name, git in this example, to whatever you like.
  • View the content of your new public key, and copy the content to your clipboard: cat ~/.ssh/git.pub

# Add your new key

# Test your connection

  • In GitHub, test if you are allowed to connect to GitHub from port 443 (ssh -T -p 443 git@ssh.github.com -i ~/.ssh/git). GitHub should greet you if successful, if not, you need to talk to your lab technical contact to learn about the network restrictions of your lab.
  • In GitLab, test if you are allowed to connect to GitLab from port 443 (ssh -T -p 443 git@altssh.gitlab.com -i ~/.ssh/git). GitLab should greet you if successful, if not, you need to talk to your lab technical contact to learn about the network restrictions of your lab.
  • In GitHub, test your new connection with ssh -T git@github.com. You should see a greeting.
  • In GitLab, test your new connection with ssh -T git@gitlab.com. You should see a greeting.

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