<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>You can read or clone these repos without any control, but to write ("push") to them you will need to use <var>ssh://expo@expo.survex.com</var> and set up the <ahref="keyexchange.html">key exchange</a>.
<p>NOTE: always use user <var>'expo'</var> as the login user (<var>ssh://expo@...</var>) even though within git you will be identified by your own ssh key name.
<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 (which is what we use on Windows). Use VS Code which understands WSL or a command line git in a WSL terminal window.
<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>
<p>For more detailed instructions on making Pageant work see <ahref="fzconfig.html">the section in the middle of the Filezilla instructions</a> where it describes how to configure Pageant.
