{"id":3150,"date":"2013-08-31T10:55:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T10:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2013-08-31T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T10:57:19","slug":"how-to-add-an-existing-git-repository-to-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/how-to-add-an-existing-git-repository-to-github\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add an existing GIT repository to github."},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of the times, it makes more sense to start working on something that slowly transforms into the beginning of a project that deserves to be on github. This post is about creating a local repository and putting it on github.<\/p>\n

1. First we must convert the main local folder into a git repository<\/strong>. For this example let’s call the folder “my-new-project”. With your terminal go to that folder and type:
\n[bash]git init[\/bash]<\/p>\n

the repository will initialize but nothing will be added to it yet. If you type git status<\/strong> you will see all the things you can add to it, so use git add<\/strong> to add the folders you want to track, and then go ahead and do a git commit -m “initial commit”<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Now go to github.com and create your repository “my-new-project”<\/strong>, and copy the clone url of the repo, I personally like to work with the one that starts with “ssh:\/\/” since I like to work with ssh keys and not have to deal with passwords. <\/p>\n

You can easily configure your ssh certificates for multiple things, not just github but keys for many many servers working with the ~\/.ssh\/config file<\/a> (no need to deal with effing ssh-agent). <\/p>\n

If you created this github repository with some other account, make sure to give yourself contributor access on the github role settings, otherwise you won’t be able to pull\/push.<\/em><\/p>\n

3. Time to pull (fetch+merge) the remote repo and then push this baby up<\/strong>.
\nYou do that by invoking the following commands (let’s suppose the remote url is git remote add origin git@github.com:myaccount\/my-new-project.git<\/strong>):
\n[bash]git remote add git@github.com:myaccount\/my-new-project.git
\ngit pull origin master[\/bash]<\/p>\n

you should see something like below coming from the remote repo’s master branch:<\/p>\n

[bash]warning: no common commits
\nremote: Counting objects: 4, done.
\nremote: Compressing objects: 100% (2\/2), done.
\nremote: Total 4 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
\nUnpacking objects: 100% (4\/4), done.
\nFrom github.com:myaccount\/my-new-project
\n * branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
\nMerge made by the ‘recursive’ strategy.
\n .gitignore | 6 ++++++
\n README.md | 2 ++
\n 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
\n create mode 100644 .gitignore
\n create mode 100644 README.md[\/bash]<\/p>\n

and then just
\n[bash]git push[\/bash]<\/p>\n

and you’re done, you should see your initial commit on github now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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