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Git Switch from HTTPS to SSH

If you have trouble cloning a github repo using https, you can tell it to switch to SSH instead.

Here’s the command.

git config --global url.ssh://git@github.com/.insteadOf https://github.com/

I had to specify reconfigure when I ran terraform init.

terraform init --reconfigure

AWS Copy Security Group

You can copy rules from a security group to a new security group created within the same Region.

Open the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) console.

  1. In the navigation pane, choose Security Groups.
  2. Select the security group you’d like to copy.
  3. For Actions, choose Copy to new.
  4. The Create Security Group dialog opens, and is populated with the rules from your existing security group.
  5. Specify a Security group name and Description for your new security group.
  6. For VPC, choose the ID of the VPC.
  7. Choose Create.

Git Clone Multiple Accounts

How to clone repositories with multiple Github accounts.

git clone git@github.com-yourgitaccount:yourgitaccount/myrepo.git

Git Clone

Git Clone is a command used to make a copy of a Git repository to your local drive. It creates a new directory and creates a clone of the repository on the local drive. In the example below, a clone of an existing repository from Github is placed on the local computer. You initiate a clone by typing the following command on the Terminal.

// old way. does not work anymore.
git clone git@github.com:username/Project.git
 
// new way. use this from this point on.
git clone https://github.com/username/Project