How to initiate and link your repo with GitHub

Prepare your remote repository

  • Log In your GitHub Account

  • On your Profile go in Repositories then press New

  • Fill the Name and choose to make your repository

    • Public
    • Private

Congrats ! We're done here for now.

Initiate your local repository

After creating your directory, open your terminal.

  • let's start by telling Git that we want this folder to become a repository

    in your terminal use the command:

    git init

  • the next step is to prepare the content of this fresh depo to be sent to GitHub

    [!NOTE] If no files exist don't forget to create one, we can't sent something to GitHub that doesn't exist.

    Type the command git add "your_file" to add it for your next commit.

  • Prepare your commit with git commit -m "your commit"

The only things left are to link your local repository to GitHub

  • After copying the address of your remote repository on GitHub use the command git remote add origin <your remote repository address>

    [!WARNING] GitHub Doesn't support HTTPS connection anymore with the supression of password authentication when pushing your files. If you only plan to pull or clone from a public repository HTTPS is still usable.

  • The last step is to push your local files to your remote repository by using git push -u origin main

You made it !

Your repository is now fully ready and only wait your next

  • add
  • commit
  • push