Adding an existing project or initial push to GitHub using the command line?

Last updated on December 23, 2015

In this post I would like to show you ,How to Add an existing project to GitHub using the command line with simple steps.

Open Terminal (for Mac and Linux users) or the command prompt (for Windows users). Change the current working directory to your local project.Initialize the local directory as a Git repository to do that run below command

git init

Then 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.

Now 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

Completed steps:
On server:

mkdir my_project.git
cd my_project.git
git --bare init

On client:

 
mkdir my_project
cd my_project
touch .gitignore
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git remote add origin [email protected]:/path/to/my_project.git
git push origin master