Introduction Git is local software that i installed on my machine to help me manage codes while github is an online platform that host git repositories. This is a step by step guide of how i used git to publish my first project to github while a SSH key for a secure connection with github. Tools Used This task was done in the following environments Windows Operating system Git git --version git version 2.55.0.windows.4 Github account Actions Taken to Link Git and Github This are the step by step methods that i used to mlink git and github 1) Configuring Git Configured Git with my github username and the email I used in setting up my github account git config --global user.name "alfieotuko" git config --global user.email "alfiemauwa7@gmail.com" 2) Generating the SSH key The next action is to generate ssh key. The command will generaye two ssh keys, a private ssh key which should not be share and a public ssh key which is what will be used to link the git and github. The generated public ssh key will be copied to be then pasted on github. ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "alfiemauwa7@gmail.com" clip < "c/user/omolo/" .ssh/id_ed25519.pub 3) Inserting the SSH to Github The copied ssh key will be be added to github by going to the github settings under the SSH AND GPG keys and then clicking on the ssh key. To confirm if the added ssh key was successful; ssh -T git@github.com After which it will display a message that it was successful. 4) Creating Local Folder Creating a folder in the local directory that will hold data of the project. cd Desktop mkdir kenya-hospital-records-analysis cd kenya-hospital-record-analysis 5) Creating a File and a Folder Creating a README.md file inside the kenya-hospital-record-analysis folder alongside the file also creating a folder named "data". touch README.md mkdir data 6) Creating a Git Repository This is to initialize and turn the folder in a git repository and to check in which branch is the folder in git init git status On branch main 7) Stage and Commit This is to stage and saving the project checkpoint history but still not saved in online cloud git add . git status On branch main git commit -m "first commit for kenya-hospital-records-analysis" 8) Linking To Github Creating a new and empty repository on github and copying the the URL of the ssh from github and pasting it on git there by saving it on the online platform. git remote add origin git@github.com:alfieotuko/kenya-hospital-records-analysis 9) Pushing to Github To save the repository to github git push -u origin main Adding URL Link Here is the link to my github alfieotukoGithub Conclusion The local folder was saved and hosted in a cloud based github repositories with the ssh providing a secure hosting.