Getting Started with Git

Step 1: Add Your Public SSH Key to Gitea

• Ensure your local machine's public SSH key is added to your Gitea account settings.
• Navigate to Gitea web interface.
• Go to Settings > SSH/GPG Keys and click Add Key.
• Paste the contents of your public key file (e.g., ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) into the Content box and save.

Step 2: Configure Your Local SSH Client

• The critical step is configuring your local SSH client to use the cloudflared daemon as a proxy for the Gitea SSH hostname. This allows your SSH client to establish the connection through the Cloudflare tunnel instead of trying a direct connection.
• Edit your local SSH configuration file (~/.ssh/config) and add the following entries:

Host git.rodneyosodo.com
  HostName gitssh.rodneyosodo.com
  Port 4021
  User git
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa # Path to your private SSH key
  ProxyCommand /usr/bin/cloudflared access ssh --hostname %h

• Make sure to replace /usr/bin/cloudflared with the actual path to the cloudflared executable on your local machine.

Step 3: Test the Connection

You should now be able to use standard Git SSH commands to interact with your Gitea repositories. Gitea will provide clone URLs like git@git.rodneyosodo.com:<username>/<repo>.git, which your local SSH config will intercept and route correctly through the tunnel.

Test the connection:

ssh -T git@git.rodneyosodo.com

You should see a message confirming you have successfully connected to Gitea via SSH.

Hi there, <username>! You've successfully authenticated with the key named <ssh-key-name>, but Gitea does not provide shell access.
If this is unexpected, please log in with password and setup Gitea under another user.

Clone a repository:

git clone git@git.rodneyosodo.com:rodneyosodo/getting-started-git-rodneyosodo.git