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Git workflow: Working Directory, Staging, Commit and Push

This will demonstrate how to create folders, files, and pushing a data set to Github using Git.
Our data set is: Car Imports Analysis.

Create a folder in desktop

Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop
$ mkdir Car-Imports-Analysis
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Create a data folder inside Car-Imports-Analysis

Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis
$ mkdir data
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Create a file inside Car-Imports-Analysis

Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis
$ touch README.md
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Add content to README.md file

Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis
$ echo "#Car-Imports-Analysis" >README.md
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Used Nano terminal text editor to write the texts and display in README.md file.

Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis
$ nano README.md

Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis
$ nano README.md

`Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis
$ nano README.md`

Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis
$ cat README.md
#Car-Imports-Analysis
##Project Overview
This project analyses the Car Imports data records for different car models in the respective years
##Tools Used
- Microsoft Excel
- Github
- Git
- Power Bi
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Initialize the project with Git using git init:
Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/One Drive/OneDrive/Desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis/.git/

Connecting the local project 'Car Imports Analysis' to Github using SSH key:


Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis (main)
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:Collins-Sigei/Car-Import-Analysis-.git
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The following are the steps towards pushing the project to Github:

  • Staging the project: 
Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis (main)
$ git add .
warning: in the working copy of 'data/Car Imports Data Records.csv', LF will be replaced by CRLF the
 next time Git touches it
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  • Commit

Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis (main)
$ git commit -m "Add Car Imports Analaysis Records Project"
[main (root-commit) 9a2d029] Add Car Imports Analaysis Records Project
2 files changed, 1009 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 README.md
create mode 100644 data/Car Imports Data Records.csv

  • Select and copy the SSH key from Github to gitbash

  • Connect local project to github

Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis (main)
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:Collins-Sigei/Car-Import-Analysis-.git
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  • Push the project to Github 
Barta@DESKTOP-I97ED39 MINGW64 /c/One Drive/onedrive/desktop/Car-Imports-Analysis (main)
$ git push -u origin main
Enter passphrase for key 'C:\Users\Barta/.ssh/id_ed25519':
Enumerating objects: 5, done.
Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 48.25 KiB | 345.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
To github.com:Collins-Sigei/Car-Import-Analysis-.git
 * [new branch]      main -> main
branch 'main' set up to track 'origin/main'.
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