Setting up github

Prerequisites

• A developer workstation meeting the minimum system requirements is available for use.
• The developer workstation OS software has been set up successfully - instructions here.
• You have submitted your Github credentials to Rethink Robotics and access has been granted to your account. This is available once you receive the Baxter Pre-Delivery Guide prior to when the Baxter Research Robot is delivered.

Outcome of this step

• Your developer machine is set up to access Rethink files from Github.

Setting up Github

• If git is not already installed on development workstation, you will need to install it as follows:

  $ sudo apt-get install git-core

• Now make a new dir called "git" somewhere on your system outside of any other pre-existing respository directories. Make sure you are not in any init shell for any systems.

• Set up your git credentials on the Development Workstation as follows.

  $ git config --global user.email <[email protected]>

  $ git config --global user.name <firstName lastName>

###This section only applies if you need access to a Rethink Robotics private repo.

• Github will need your ssh public key.
  • Navigate to your ~/.ssh directory and copy the full contents of the id_dsa.pub file to the clipboard.
    • If there is no id_dsa.pub file in this folder, run $ ssh-keygen -t dsa to create one. Simply hit enter when prompted without typing anything to create the files in the correct location.
  • Now go to Github and log in with your Rethink provided Github account.
  • Go to Account settings (second icon from your account name on the top navigation bar of Github).
  • Navigate to the left panel, and click "SSH Keys".
  • Now click the "Add SSH key" button in the upper right of the SSH Keys page.
  • Enter a name for the key and paste the contents of your clipboard into the "Key" section, then save the key.

Next Steps

Installing the Research SDK