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Shivansh Mishra
Shivansh Mishra

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Want to upload a project on GitHub?

Setup git in your system

  • Install git in your system.

  • Signup/login in your GitHub account.

  • Create a repository in GitHub.

Upload a project in GitHub

If you're uploading first time

  1. Create your project folder 📁 and open it in VS code.(Make sure in the folder atleast one file is present)

  2. Run these commands in VS code terminal 🧑‍💻.

This command initialise git in your folder 👇

git init
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This command make the files ready to upload. This command add all file in your folder if you want to upload a specific file replace "." with file name and extension for eg "index.html" 👇

git add .
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This command basically save the history of your changes and ' -m "First commit" ' this is a message of commit 👇

git commit -m "First commit"
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By default your branch is master to change the project branch we use this command. 👇

git branch -M main
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This command tells you folder to go specific repository. 👇

git remote add origin https://github.com/your_username/repository_name.git
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This is the last command that push your changes in GitHub in main branch 👇

git push -u origin main
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