Untitled, for now.

For my first post, I figured I could start with something really simple. I encountered this at work some time ago, but I forgot how to solve it after encountering it once again recently. Basically, I realized that (after not updating my website for awhile) I git cloned my repository using HTTPS instead of SSH onto my laptop. For the sake of convenience, I wanted to be able to do git pull, push and so on without having to validate my identification every time. This is awfully simple, but I figured I might as well document this in case I forget it in the future, and hopefully this helps someone in need too. I referred to the GitHub documentation for the following tutorial. When cloning repositories, you can choose whether to do it via HTTPS or SSH. A HTTPS type clone is creating a copy of a remote repo which you do not have automatic write access to , while an SSH type clone gives you the access to push your changes (as long as you have an SSH key set up) automatically . Hence,