Share local project on GitHub

This post will show how to share a local project on GitHub in a few easy steps using the command line and a few actions taking on GitHub’s website.

Create and init your local GitHub repository

1. Go to https://github.com and create the repository for your project;
2. When prompted by GitHub, init your new repository so a new master branch is created.

Sync the local and remote repositories

Init your project root folder as a Git repository:

git init

Add the remote GitHub repository to your local Git repository:

git remote add origin https://github.com/<github_user>/<github_project>.git

Fetch the remote branches:

git fetch origin

Checkout and set the master’s branch to point to the remote branch:

git checkout -b master --track origin/master

Hope it helps. Cya!

References

• Stack Overflow – What’s the best practice to “git clone” into an existing folder?