Get started with Git and GitHub

These are the most basic and common steps or commands you can follow to put your code on Git and Github.

If you don't know git and GitHub very well this could be the starting point.

You need to open your terminal in your project folder to run the commands.

Make sure that Git is Installed on your Computer

To check that use this
command that will print the current version installed on your device

git --version

If you don't have it installed you can download git from here, Git installer

Now let's get you using Git/GitHub

🌟 git init

git init

This command will create a local repository (folder) for your project in it's internal system which you can see and use using different commands.

🌟 git add

git add .

Using the .(dot) will add all the files in your project to staging area where all files are ready to put in git repository

you can specify the files you want add here instead of using dot

🌟 git commit

git commit -m "first commit"

This will put(copy) all the files that you added to staging previously to your local repository

Here the -m flag points to the message that you will add with your code commit so whenever any other developer checks your repository or commit-logs they can see what changes have been done to the code.

It is a good practice here to write specific messages rather than some simple sentances like “code changed” or “link added”.

Now we'll host this local repository online so that anyone from any part of the world can look at your code that you put there.

There are lots of online repository hosting platforms like GitHub , GitLab and BitBucket but here I've used GitHub here as it's widely used and popular.

First you'll just have to make a GitHub account and follow below steps, they are mix of some ui use and commands

🌟 make new repository on GitHub

Going to GitHub's page you can see a make a new repository button on corner, click on that, give a name and fill some info required and you are good to go.

Now the steps after this can also be seen on a new repository page on Github Site you can follow that too

🌟 git remote add origin

git remote add origin 'repository_url' 

Here, remote works like a name to your long Repository URL, so whenever you want to reference to that repository you can just use origin(which is your remote name), by convention origin is used as the name but you can use whatever.

🌟 git push

git push origin master

Git push will will push your local repository code to remote repository where anyone can see your code online, unless you make your repository private

Here as you know origin will be the reference to your repository url and master will be the main/master branch of your repository.

Now if you refresh your repository page you can see your code on GitHub

At first, this process can be a bit confusing and lengthy but you need to practice and put all your coding work using these so you can get more comfortable with this process

If you want a deep understanding of all basic and advanced features of Git GitHub, you can check this tutorial by Kunal Kushwaha - Tutorial Link

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