GitHub

Last modified: 18 June 2020

File | Settings | Version Control | GitHub for Windows and Linux

MPS | Preferences | Version Control | GitHub for macOS Ctrl+Alt+S the Settings/Preferences icon

Use this page to specify your GitHub remote storage account, or create a GitHub account if you do not have one yet.

You can specify several accounts and set the default account for each of your projects. Thus, you won't have to specify which account to use each time you need to connect to GitHub, for example, to create a gist.

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Add account

Click this link to specify an existing GitHub account, or create a new one.

Clone git repositories using ssh

Select this option if you want to transfer data from GitHub via the secure SSH network protocol.

Connection timeout

Specify the time period to wait for connection to be established.