My GitHub Cheatsheet
engineering
deployment
Add an existing local project to GitHub
Use your browser to navigate GitHub, create a new repository in your account. Go to terminal and cd into project directory.
- git init -b main #Initialize
- git add . #add all files to staging
- git commit -m "First commit" #commit locally
- git remote add origin < repo_url > #Add url of remote repo, get url from github repo created
- git remote -v #verify you have added the remote repo
- git push -u origin main #push
Clone a project on GitHub
- Navigate to local directory and create a folder for project and cd into.
- Copy HTTPS url from project in GitHub.
- git clone < url > . #don't forget the dot, which means 'here'
- Enter username, and token (you will need to copy/paste this from Settings).