Importing Source Code to Github

Github is a hosting service for software development projects using the Git revision control system. GitHub offers free accounts for open source projects (public repositories) and commercial plans for private repositories.

I’ve been using github for a while to clone source code, but I had never imported existing source code to github.

Here are the steps to follow:

1. If you don’t have an account yet, sign-up for github.
2. Setup github for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X.
3. Create a repository as shown as explained here. You should now have a URL in github, something like [email protected]:user/repo_name.git, which we’ll use below.
4. Go to the directory with your existing source code and create a local repo:
   
   git init git add . git commit -m "Initial commit"

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   git init git add . git commit -m "Initial commit"

5. Finally, type the commands below to add your code to your new repository:
   
   Shell

   git remote add somename git@github.com:user/repo_name.git git pull git@github.com:user/repo_name.git git push somename master

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   git remote add somename git@github.com:user/repo_name.git git pull git@github.com:user/repo_name.git git push somename master

That’s it, anybody should now be able to clone you code as follows:

NB: If your existing source code (or part of it) comes from a git repository, you need to delete existing .git* files and directory first:

or you won’t be able able to import your existing project to github and it will just upload an empty directory without source code.

Sources:

1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2866872/how-to-upload-fresh-code-at-github
2. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4658606/import-existing-source-code-to-github

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.

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