How to Push Local Repo Code into Github Repo

This guide is intended to show how to push code from our local computer to a GitHub repository.

Step 1

• Open the Git Bash prompt and locate the folder that you want to push

Step 2

• Initialize GitHub through the Git Bash prompt

git init        

Step 3

• Use?the next command in your bash to add all the files to the given folder.

git add .        

Step 4

• Use?the next command?in your bash to view all the files that are going to be staged to the first commit.

git status        

Step 5

• Create a commit message that adds the change to the local repository.
• Git commit uses the ‘-m’ flag for a message to set the commits with the content where the full description is included.

git commit - "your message"        

Step 6

• The origin is the remote name, and the remote is the URL provided by your GitHub**.** You can see the remote as GitHub in this case, and GitHub provides the URL for adding to the remote repository.

git remote add origin 'git_url'        

Step 7

• The below code is used for pushing local content to GitHub

git push -u origin master        

In case of error…

• error: remote origin already exists.: This can be easily solved by just running the below code

git remote remove origin