Push existing project into Github

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I have a folder with my project sources  How I can push this project into Github s repository    I tried using this steps    I created empty repository on GitHub   I run git-bash and typed git init  so inside project root appeared  git folder   I added some files to version control using git add sourcesFolderName I committed files added in previous step using git commit -m  initial commit  I specified remote repository using git remote add MyProject  lt url gt  Finally git push  but nothing is pushed to remote repo     no authorization failure    So how I can push existing sources into newly created github repo

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Another option if you want to get away from the command line is to use SourceTree.

Here are some additional resources on how to get set up:

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As of 7 29 2019  Github presents users with the instructions for accomplishing this task when a repo is created  offering several options  create a new repository on the command line git init git add README md git commit -m  quot first commit quot  git remote add origin https   github com user repo git git push -u origin master  push an existing repository from the command line git remote add origin https   github com user repo git git push -u origin master  import code from another repository press import button to initialize process  For the visual learners out there

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you will need to specify which branch and which remote when pushing     git init      git add Readme md   git commit -m  Initial Commit    git remote add github  lt project url gt    git push github master   Will work as expected   You can set this up by default by doing     git branch -u github master master   which will allow you to do a git push from master without specifying the remote or branch

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git init git add   git commit -m  Initial commit  git remote add origin  lt project url gt  git push -f origin master   The -f option on git push forces the push  If you don t use it  you ll see an error like this   To git github com roseperrone project git     rejected         master - gt  master  fetch first  error  failed to push some refs to  git github com roseperrone project git  hint  Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do hint  not have locally  This is usually caused by another repository pushing hint  to the same ref  You may want to first merge the remote changes  e g   hint   git pull   before pushing again  hint  See the  Note about fast-forwards  in  git push --help  for details

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I will follow the previous comment from Rose P   It took me a long time to find the solution so I m reposting  hopefully in plain English  what worked for me     step 1   Create your new repository on Github com  skip if you already have one   step 2   Close XCode   not needed  step 3   Open a new Terminal window  yes  you have to use terminal   I tried all other ways   nothing worked   step 4   Using the command cd to find your folder location to your project  the project you want to add to your existing or new repository   step 5  type git init you ll get something like this   Reinitialized existing Git repository  in   current directory   step 6  type git add   nothing happens after this step  but type it and go on to the next step   step 7  type git commit -m  Initial commit   you ll get the following    On branch master nothing to commit  working directory clean  or   some explanation about configuration and then a list of files that have changed   step 8  type git remote add origin  project url   The project url can be found in Github com  Its the HTTPS clone URL   you should be able to just copy and paste to the terminal window  If the system tell you that origin already exists  create a different name or use your project name  something different   step 9  go to your GitHub application on your mac and click the  Sync Branch  button  even if there are no pending changes   It takes awhile I think for it to actually commit  but if you go back to your local repository folder you should see your new project   I had to re-create the parent folder  but it s just a matter of moving your files around   Go to GitHub com and refresh your browser and your new files should also be there     I hope that helps

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Git has been the version-control system of choice since its inception in 2005  About 87  of the developers use Git as their version-control system  But if you have a project that is already existing and you want to push to Git in the remote server  follow along the below steps   Go to the terminal of your project directory  You need to initialize your project git using  git init  Create a  gitignore file and it is actually a text file that tells Git which files or folders to ignore in a project   Stage your files using  git add    Commit your changes to your local repository with an appropriate commit message   git commit -m  quot my first commit quot   In this step  you just need to create a repository in any one of the distributed version control systems like GitHub or Bitbucket  Use this Git command to link your local repository with that of the remote  git remote add  lt your-remote-name gt   lt your-remote-url gt    So  if your GitHub repo-url is https   github com your-github-username new-repository git  then the Git command becomes  git remote add origin https   github com  lt your-github-username gt  new-repository git   Push your code to remote GitHub repository git push origin master   Note  The git push command requires two parameters  the name of the remote repository  origin  and the branch to push to  here master is the default branch for every repository   Refer this blog for detailed information

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git init   Add the files in your new local repository  This stages them for the first commit   git add     Adds the files in the local repository and stages them for commit  To unstage a file  use  git reset HEAD YOUR-FILE    Commit the files that you ve staged in your local repository   git commit -m  First commit    Commits the tracked changes and prepares them to be pushed to a remote   repository  To remove this commit and modify the file  use  git reset --soft HEAD 1  and commit and add the file again  Copy remote repository URL fieldAt the top of your GitHub repository s Quick Setup page  click  to copy the remote repository URL   In the Command prompt  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   Push the changes in your local repository to GitHub   git push origin master   Pushes the changes in your local repository up to the remote repository you    specified as the origin

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First  make a new repository on Github with your project name Then follow the below steps    1 git init 2 git add   3 git commit -m  first commit  4 git remote add origin https   github com yuvraj777 GDriveDemo git 5 git push -u origin master

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If you re on a Mac  and this probably works the same on a PC   here s a very easy way to do this  Strangely enough I ve looked high and low for this simple process and never found it     Do not do anything on Github  other than having an account  and not having used up all your available repos    Download GitHub for Mac and install  Go through the account setup  etc  Do NOT create any repositories for your existing project    Add New Local Repository  in repositories   Select your existing folder  It ll ask if you want to do that  say yes   Once done  you ll see a list of all your files  etc  Commit them  Go to Repositories and Publish  this will create the new repo on GitHub for you  if you set up your account properly    Go to Repositories and Push  you ll either see the  nothing to push  thing  or it ll push your files changes to the newly-auto-made repo    Wonder why you could not find this simple process anywhere else       I know it is not recommended to use the project folder as the repo folder  I do it all the time  it always works  it makes it simple  and I never have any trouble with it

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From command line  navigate to your local repository directory  Create new repository in GitHub  it will provide you with a link ends with  git   in cmd run   git remote add origin  your GitHub Repository link   remember link should end with  git   then run   git push -u origin master   Hope this was useful

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In less technical terms My answer is not different but I am adding more information because those that are new could benefit from filling in the gaps in information  After you create the repo on github they have instructions  You can follow those  But here are some additional tips because I know how frustrating it is to get started with git  Let s say that you have already started your project locally  How much you have does not matter  But let s pretend that you have a php project  Let s say that you have the index php  contact php and an assets folder with images  css  and fonts  You can do it this way  easy   but there are many options  Option 1 Login to your github account and create the repo    In the following screen you can copy it down where you need it if you click the button  right side of screen  to  quot clone in desktop quot     You can  or do it another way  then copy the contents from your existing project into your new repo  Using the github app  you can just commit from there using their GUI  that means that you just click the buttons in the application   Of course you enter your notes for the commit  Option 2  Create your repo on github as mentioned above  On your computer  go to your directory using the terminal  using the linux command line you would cd into the directory  From here you run the following commands to  quot connect quot  your existing project to your repo on github   This is assuming that you created your repo on github and it is currently empty   first do this to initialize git  version control   git init  then do this to add all your files to be  quot monitored  quot  If you have files that you want ignored  you need to add a  gitignore but for the sake of simplicity  just use this example to learn  git add    Then you commit and add a note in between the  quot  quot  like  quot first commit quot  etc   git commit -m  quot Initial Commit quot   Now  here is where you add your existing repo git remote add github  lt project url gt   But do not literally type  lt project url gt   but your own project URL  How do you get that   Go to the link where your repo is on github  then copy the link  In my case  one of my repos is https   github com JGallardo urbanhistorical so my resulting url for this command would just add  git after that  So here it would be git remote add github https   github com JGallardo urbanhistorical git  Test to see that it worked by doing git remote -v  You should see what your repo is linked to   Then you can push your changes to github git push github master  or git push origin master  If you still get an error  you can force it with -f  But if you are working in a team environment  be careful not to force or you could create more problems  git push -f origin master

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In summary   git init git status git add     git commit -m  Comment you want  git remote add origin  https   link git push  -u origin master   I would like to share a source with you so that you learn about Git more easily    https   try github io levels 1 challenges 1

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I know  this is an old question but I m trying to explain every step  so it may help others  This is how I add an existing source to git    Create the repo on the git  so you ll have the ssh    https where you re gonna remote add you source code  In your terminal go to the path of your project  Run git init  here you initiate the project as a git one   Run git add    here you add all the files and folders from you project   Run git commit -m  Initial Commit    here you commit your files and folders added in step  4  keep in mention that you can t push your changes without committing them   Run git remote add origin https   your username bitbucket org your username project-name git  here you add a remote project where your source it s gonna be pushed  replace my link with your ssh    https from the step  1   Run git push -u origin master  here you push your source into the git repository     Note  Those are simple steps for pushing your source into the master branch

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Follow below gitbash commands to push the folder files on github repository  - 1     git init 2     git cd D  FileFolderName 3     git status 4   If needed to switch the git branch  use this command          git checkout -b DesiredBranch 5     git add   6     git commit -m  added a new folder  7     git push -f https   github com username MyTestApp git TestBranch      i e git push origin branch

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This one worked for me  just keep it for reference when in need    Go into your existing directory and run below commands cd docker-spring-boot echo  quot   docker-spring-boot quot   gt  gt  README md git init git add -A git commit -m  quot first commit quot  git branch -M master git remote add origin https   github com devopsmaster docker-spring-boot git git push -u origin master

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I found that stimulating an update in  natural  sequence was an easier route than force-pushing things   Supposing that the repo is already created on github and you may have also put some stuff into the README md     On your computer  open terminal and  git clone  repo URL  You ll see a new folder will have been created bearing your repo s name  Feel free to rename it - doesn t matter   Move your code  files etc into this folder  Edit the README md if you have to  Now open Terminal   command prompt  get inside that folder and do things as if you are making the next update to the repo    git add   git commit -m  v2  git push origin master   Note  at the commit command git may reject  asking to configure the user email and password first  Follow the steps as given on screen  then run the commit command again    And those three commands is what you do now onwards for every time you want to push another update

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Hate to add yet another answer  but my particular scenario isn t quite covered here  I had a local repo with a history of changes I wanted to preserve  and a non-empty repo created for me on Github  that is  with the default README md   Yes  you can always re-create the Github repo as an empty repo  but in my case someone else has the permissions to create this particular repo  and I didn t want to trouble him  if there was an easy workaround   In this scenario  you will encounter this error when you attempt to git push after setting the remote origin       rejected         master - gt  master  fetch first  error  failed to push some refs to  git github com  lt my repo gt  git  hint  Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do hint  not have locally  This is usually caused by another repository pushing hint  to the same ref  You may want to first integrate the remote changes hint   e g    git pull       before pushing again  hint  See the  Note about fast-forwards  in  git push --help  for details    As the error indicates  I needed to do a git pull after setting the remote origin  but I needed to specify the --allow-unrelated-histories option  Without this option  git pull complains warning  no common commits   So here is the exact sequence of commands that worked for me   git remote add origin  lt github repo url gt  cp README md README md-save git pull origin master --allow-unrelated-histories mv README md-save README md git commit -a git push

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Create a new repository  git clone  lt url gt  cd  repositoryName  touch README md git add README md git commit -m  add README  git push -u origin master   Existing folder  cd existing folder git init git remote add origin  lt url gt  git add   git commit -m  Initial commit  git push -u origin master   Existing Git repository  cd existing repo git remote rename origin old-origin git remote add origin  lt url gt  git push -u origin --all git push -u origin --tags

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