<p>If you can get to the <i>expo laptop</i> try these commands on that first as the key exchange has already been done. If the key exchnage has not been done then none of this will work.
<p> Open a terminal in a new directory, e.g. /tmp/experiments/ in which you want to create the repo. It will automatically create a folder with the repo name e.g.'troggle' in that directory.
<p>Do not use the official "git for Windows" client software as it doesn't understand symlinks in the WSL filesystem we use on Windows. Use VS Code which understand WSL or a command line git in a WSL terminal window.
<p>"Git is a 4 handle, dual boiler espresso machine – when all you need is instant."
<p>Once you've downloaded and installed a git client, the first step is to create what is called a checkout of the data management system. This creates a copy on your machine which you can edit to your heart's content. The command to initially check out ('clone') the entire expo data management system is:</p>
Fix this by running putty (downloading it from <ahref="https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/">https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/</a>), and connecting to the server 'expo@expo.survex.com' (on port 22). Confirm that this is the right server.
If you succeed in getting a shell prompt then ssh connection are working and git should be able to clone the repo, and send changes back.</p>
