What are we doing?

We are going to create a new git repo from an existing project

Shell quick reference

# List files
ls

# Get current directory (present working directory)
pwd

# Change to root directory
cd

# Change to a specific directory
cd code/name_of_directory

# Go UP a directory
cd ..

Add an existing project to GitHub

  • Navigate to your project folder

    cd code/my_awesome_project

  • Initialize a git repo

    git init

  • Stage and commit your changes

    # Stage all changes
git add -A

# Commit changes
git commit -m "Message goes here"
  • Create a new Repository on GitHub
    • Follow this GitHub guide and create a repository with the same name as your directory my_awesome_project
  • Add remote that points to your newly created repo and push changes 
    # Add remote called 'origin'
git remote add origin https://github.com/your-username/my_awesome_project.git

# Push changes to origin
git push -u origin master

  • From now on, if you want to push changes to GitHub, simply

    # Stage all changes
git add -A

# Commit changes
git commit -m "Message goes here"

# Push changes to origin
git push