Connect to Github on Windows WSL/Ubuntu

I wrote this shell script, because each time I opened Windows WSL, I had to manually start the ssh-agent and add my github private key to it, so that I may access Github using the shell 😤.

Well now, you can have this, do that for you! 🎊🎊🎊

Set up

1. Either download or clone this repo
2. Edit boot.sh and change the location on line #5 to the path where your github private key is located.
3. Copy the path to the boot.sh file by
   1. cd boot-github-shell-win
   2. Copy output of pwd
4. Make the file executable by chmod u+x boot.sh
5. In case you want this to execute each time you log in, add the following to either your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_login file:
   1. source <path-to-boot-sh-from-step-2.2>

Et Voila! 🥐🗼

Options

You may opt to print details around the execution by calling the script with the -v flag like so: bash boot.sh -v