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MilMike
MilMike

Reputation: 12851

How to assign local files with git remote?

My boss created an empty project on github. Meanwhile I was developing the app on my local machine without git. How can I now "assign" my local app with the project created on remote? (github)

I could pull the project from github in a different directory, copy my files into this directory and do a commit / push. But is there a better way without creating a new dir?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 82

Answers (1)

JDurstberger
JDurstberger

Reputation: 4255

Just add the github-repository as a remote in your repository then you can push your work to github:

git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git #setUp github as remote
git push origin # push your changes to github

If your work is not in a repository right now just init a new one and commit the changes

git init #in project folder
git commit -m 'initial commit'
#setUp remote with above code
#git push origin

Please note

Just adding the remote repo may not set master as an upstream-brunch so you may have to use:

git push origin master

If you do not want to always have to use the branch name for pushing you can set your branches as upstream-branches with

git branch --set-upstream my_branch origin/my_branch

Afterwards git push origin will work for all branches with an upstream

Upvotes: 5

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