Github is web-based platform for managing code projects. Git on the other hand is an open-source version control system that tracks changes in code and allows multiple people to work on the same project simultaneously. Below is a simple tutorial to upload a git local repository to remote Github platform:
1. Navigate to github.com
2. Login to Github using Google or manually create a new account
3. Next click New to create a new remote Github repository
4. Next it requires entering the repository name exactly as in below image for simplicity
5. Submitting form for creating new repository with default settings
6. It will redirect to repository success page
7. After scrolling down some directions can be seen as in below image to upload the repository
8. Next in the Terminal or Command Prompt, hit below command for creating and navigating the directory
9. Then create a new file in the github-repo-test directory named README.md
10. Initiate editing the file using gedit tool or any tool of choice
11. Next add content to the file as below provided
12.1 Making sure Git is installed by hitting below commands(git --version)
12.2 If Git is not installed, it can be installed using below command in Linux
12.3 In case if your Operating System is Windows below url can be used to install
12.4 In case if your Operating System in MacOS, below link can be used:
13. Initializing git repository using git init command
14. Next it requires checking the status of the repository, currently it will show no commits yet
15. Before commit it requires to check and change the user git system configuration, mainly user.name and user.email hash needs to be set
16. For setting them, below last two commands are used, replace values in double quotes as per your credentials
17. Next it requires to change the status from unstaged to staged using git add -A command
18. Next branch is to be renamed to main from master using git branch -M main command
19. Next remote urls can be checked using git remote -v and remote url can be added using git remote add origin url(as provided in the page after creating repository), the url can be tracked from the page as in the below image
20.1 Navigating Account Settings for token generation
20.2 Scrolling down to navigate Developer settings
20.3 Next navigate to Tokens(classic) side menu item
20.4 Generating new classic token dropdown to be chosen as in below image
20.5 Token name, it's expiration, and scopes are to be provided, for scope just repo is to be checked
20.6 Next scrolling and clicking Generate token button is required
20.7 Single time token will be shown just for once, therefore the token is to be saved
21. Pushing local repo to remote Github repo using command git push origin main
22.1 Next it requires to navigate to self(account) repositories as in below image
22.2 Then navigation to the repository is to be made
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