Create Git - Executable file with SSH Key

This project contains tool to generate binary executable git file which using your SSH private key in passed path. This is wrapper for git command.

Why and When ?

• When You are working on private machine (Notebook, Desktop) and You would like to separate your private configuration (private OpenSource projects) and your company configuration.
• When Your company has implemented not-standard authentication methods (i.e., Username & Password) by HTTPS (i.e., by Token in GitLab self-hosted)
• When Your favourite IDE does not support and store path to SSH Key for Git (i.e., PyCharm 2021.1.2)
• When You don't run ssh-agent in daemon mode using only in your company (and adding SSH Key to each session in shell)
• When You don't want to configure in global home directory ssh-keys used by Your company [Security Reason]

Requirements

• ssh
• ssh-agent
• ssh-add
• bash
• git
• shc # compile sh scripts to binary executable

Installation

How to install required SHC

Create-Git

Download or clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/Webinterpret/create-git.git

Change directory:

cd create-git

Check files:

ls -la

Compare if structure is like below:

├── create-git              # The main git executable creator (compiled from ./src/create-git.sh)
├── README.md               # This README.md file
└── src                     # Source directory
    ├── create-git.sh       # Main git executable creator source code written in bash
    └── git.sh              # Main source code of git wrapper command used to compile locally written in bash 

Usage (after cd to create-git directory)

To see available options:

$ ./create-git -h

or

$ ./create-git --help

or

$ ./create-git -?

Example:

$ ./create-git -k /path/to/your/company/topsecret/private/key [-s|--source] [i.e. /home/{user}/repositories/create-git/src] [-t|--target] [i.e. /top/secret/path/to/encrypted/company/drive/bin/]

Compiling create-git.sh script

When you change /src/create-git.sh file then you need to compile new version like below (when you inside main project dir):

$ shc -f src/create-git.sh -o create-git && rm src/create-git.sh.x.c

After that you can commit new version for create-git tool.

Use cases

When you want to change system git executable in PyCharm:

1. Open Settings
2. Find Version Control section
3. Find Git section
4. Find Git executable and fill like below: