Publishing from CLIΒΆ

Alright, now that we have made our ssh keys, let’s send our project to Github. The steps to this are

  1. Create an empty repository in Github (make sure you don’t initialize with a readme).
  2. Set the github repo as the remote (or remote repository) for the repo you created in The Command Line Interface (CLI).

So get on to github.com and make a new repository:

github nav bar

For “Repository name”, enter in the name of the folder you ran git init in (if you’ve been following directions, it should be of the format “<username>_CLI_REPO”). Your GitHub repository doesn’t have to have the same name as your local repository, but it is much less confusing. Feel free to enter a description if you like, and leave the repo as public – you want people to be able to easily see your work! DO NOT check the box next to “Initialize this repository with a README” – as the instructions note, you already ran git init so you don’t need to do this step.

Hit create repository. You’ll see a set of instructions. You’ll want to “Push an existing repository from Command Line”:

# Set the remote repo with "remote add"
# origin is what you will name the remote (a standard name)
git remote add origin git@github.com:<username>/<username>_CLI_REPO.git

# push the commits you have made *upstream* using -u
# to the master branch of origin (the remote you just set)
# master branch is the default branch of every repository
git push -u origin master

You will be asked if you want to continue connecting to Github -type “yes”. Refresh your github repo page in chrome and Voila! You should see that the readme has been pushed to Github. You’ve now created a Git repository from the command line and successfully connected it to GitHub!

Once your local repository has been connected to GitHub, you can not only continue uploading your changes with the push command, you can also download any changes others have made with the (aptly-named) pull command:

git pull

At this point you now have all the tools you need to create, modify, and collaborate with others using either the command line, a GUI, or both! The world is truly your oyster.