Tag: git

SSH Keys Suddenly Refused to Connect

Published November 29, 2020 by Alvin Sim

Strangely, my Debian system (running on WSL) suddenly refused to connect to both Gitlab and GitHub using my SSH keys. Everything was fine when I last used it a couple of weeks ago. But now running the command ssh -Tv git@github.com returns a “Connection timed out” error. And I didn’t see the same issue using the same SSH keys on a Ubuntu system (also running on WSL) and Git Bash on Windows. So, there is no issues with my SSH…

‘git status’ in Your Prompt

Published June 25, 2019 by Alvin Sim

Did you know: You can have a visual representation of the git status command output in your shell prompt? This is especially convenient for people who use the git command-line interface (CLI). Unfortunately, this doesn’t work with the Windows command prompt or cmd. But there are a few workarounds. git-prompt.sh Disclaimer: For this part of the article, I will show the how-tos by using Debian (on Windows Subsystem for Linux or WSL) and FreeBSD as examples. These are the Unix-like…