GitHub fast and simple set up tutorial for developers v1

Hey there my gorgeous developer ✌️. How are you today?

I’m sure you’ve got some projects on your PC and you must be very proud of ’em, ’cause I’m proud of mine 😉. But have you actually wondered loosing them, maybe your younger one deleted some if not all by mistake, I mean permanent deletion or you sold your PC without copying them to a disk or hard drive? 🙆🏻‍♂️

Well, all thanks to GitHub for saving us from such terrible scenarios. 💞

Briefly, let’s learn how to set up GitHub for usage. Sit back and read.

Create a GitHub account if you haven’t.

Click on the + icon at the top right corner and then within it, click on New Repository

Give the Repository a name you want, best to use a name similar to that of the app you want to push to GitHub. Give it a description if you wish to. Then proceed to clicking “Create repository” at the bottom

Click on the copy button at the right hand side or just manually copy the link.

Getting excited?? Yeah, me too. 🤸🏻

Next up, head to your code editor.

Open the command line and ensure you are in the folder you want to upload to GitHub. Done that already? 👍 Let’s move on. Type the following:

Ensure you are connected to the internet

git init -this initializes a .git in your folder

git config — global user.name “enter your GitHub username”

git config — global user.email “enter the email you created GitHub with”

git status -to know the status of the file

git add . -this adds all the file within that folder to the repository

git commit -m “enter a message about your upload e.g initial commit”

git remote -here we are now trying to connect.

git remote add origin the_link_you_copied

git push -u origin master -this will push it to the master folder within GitHub

git push -just for confirmation 😋

And there you have it. Head to GitHub, within your newly created repository, refresh it, then you’ll see the files there 🥳🥳

Just in case you aren’t seeing it, and the upload was successful in the terminal, you’ve got something important to do, you will have to change the . Follow the procedure below:

If you see master, you definitely have no problem. If not, click on it

click on View all branches

click on change default branch at the right hand side

click on the drop down and select master as your default branch. Note some alerts will pop up, just agree and continue.

There you have it.

I’ll be making a post on how to pull(download) codes from GitHub very soon.

Thank you for reading through, I hope it helped.

Bye 👋🏿