First steps with Github

Signup

Create an account on www.github.com, should be self-explaining.

Also create a repository; I will call it “testrepo” in this tutorial.

We will use a Ubuntu VM as local machine in this case.

I suppose you already have a local project directory which contains all the files you want to upload.

If you use any personal user credentials in your project, please transfer the data to a separate file.

E.g. if you have a file like data.inc.php, also create a neutral file data.inc.php.sample.

Then create a file .gitignore with the contents you do not want to be uploaded:

.htaccess
data.inc.php

1 2	.htaccess data.inc.php

First preparation:

apt-get install git
cd [yourlocalpath]/testrepo
git init
git remote add testrepo https://github.com/[yourUsername]/testrepo

apt-get install git

cd [yourlocalpath]/testrepo

git init

git remote add testrepo https://github.com/[yourUsername]/testrepo

Add and upload all files:

git pull testrepo master
git add .
#or git add -A
git commit
#add a comment and close the editor
git push testrepo

git pull testrepo master

git add .

#or git add -A

git commit

#add a comment and close the editor

git push testrepo

Modifying a file is quite similar:

#modify a file
git add -A
git commit
git push testrepo

#modify a file

git add -A

git commit

git push testrepo