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Github has announced the release of Github for Windows, a client that makes it easy to use Github in Windows XP, Vista, 7 and the upcoming Windows 8. To get started, download GitHub for Windows. After the first part of the installation procedure, it will go through 2 eye raising steps: 1- Restart your computer, 2- Start Internet Explorer automatically (to complete the installation). Then you’ll just need to enter our credentials (or register) to get started with Github. It will automatically scan your local git repositories and ask you if you want to add then to Github. It will also show your Github repository as shown below. If you want to clone other people Github repositories, you’ll need to go to github.com, select a repository and click on “Clone in Windows” button (See below) This will start cloning the repo in C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\GitHub directory (default) and show […]

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: If you don’t have an account yet, sign-up for github. Setup github for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X. Create a repository as shown as explained here. You should now have a URL in github, something like git@github.com:user/repo_name.git, which we’ll use below. Go to the directory with your existing source code and create a local repo:

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

git init

git add .

git commit -m "Initial commit"

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

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

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:

git clone git://github.com/user/repo_name.git

1	git clone git://github.com/user/repo_name.git

NB: If your existing source code (or […]

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