Arnab's GitHub Instructions

Welcome!

Here you can find useful instructions for gitHub in Q&A format.

How to fork a repository?

How to add an existing project to GitHub using command line?

1. Create a new repository on GitHub. To avoid errors, do not initialize the new repository with README, license, or gitignore files. You can add these files after your project has been pushed to GitHub.

2. Open Terminal.

3. Change the current working directory to your local project.

4. Initialize the local directory as a Git repository:

git init

5. Add the files in your new local repository. This stages them for the first commit:

git add .

6. Commit the files that you've staged in your local repository:

git commit -m "First commit"

7. At the top of your GitHub repository's Quick Setup page, click to copy the remote repository URL.

8. In Terminal, add the URL for the remote repository where your local repository will be pushed:

git remote add origin remote repository URL

# Sets the new remote

git remote -v

# Verifies the new remote URL

9. Push the changes in your local repository to GitHub:

git push origin master

How to update/Sync a gitHub repository?

1. Clone your fork:

git clone git@githubNOSPAMPLEASE.com:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo

git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git

git fetch upstream

3. Updating your fork from original repo to keep up with their changes:

git pull upstream master

4. Push changes to your forked area:

git push

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-- ArnabPurohit - 2018-06-02