How to push a project to GitHub

According to Tomiwa, Git and GitHub are two symbiotic tools for developers. Git on one hand is a version control tool (like a file's registry) used to keep track of a particular codebase and all it's history right from initiation, this helps you manage the code base, ensure seamless versioning (eg v1, v2...)

GitHub on the other hand is a cloud hosting system designed to help maintain all your git repository, thus the term 'symbiotic'.

To push your project to GitHub after coding

Requirements:

• An established project on your local disk
• Install Git on the PC (you can install Git by downloading from http://git-scm.com).

Steps:

• Open git bash and navigate to the folder where the files you want to push are. Then initialize git

git init

• Add your files

git add .

It automatically adds all the files in that folder to git and it will be able to track them.

• Commit your files with a custom message. It will commit and notify git that you want to push these files online. Make your commit message as descriptive as possible.

-git commit -m "Custom Message"

• Add your Github repository as a remote

git remote add origin [e-mail]:User/UserRepo.git

where User is your username and UserRepo is your repository name.

• Push your code to GitHub. This means you are pushing to a branch named 'main' on a remote repository on Github

-git push origin main

Comments

[Andrew Clayton]

Before you can 'git add' you'll need to initialise the repository with 'git init'

Also, before you can push your repository to GitHub or anywhere else, you'll need to add it as a remote.

Push your code to Git. This means you are pushing to a branch named 'master' on a remote repository on Github

I wouldn't say 'Push your code to Git', that doesn't really make sense. You push some branch/tag/refspec to another repository, it could be a repository local to your machine, or remote, like GitHub, GitLab etc or just your own hosted repository perhaps using git-daemon.

[Sodiq Akinjobi]

Thank you very much, Andrew. I have corrected the article to reflect this. Compliments of the season to you

[Codemaniac6]

The article doesn't talk about creating ssh keys...if this article is directed at beginners, I think they'll have a problem pushing their project to GitHub for the first time

[ogheneovo12]

Boss when should we be expecting more

[Sodiq Akinjobi]

Sooon. I'm trying to get back in the groove of writing