README

This file as well was created without creating a repo online on github

1. Steps [ local ]:

• Do not worry if you have multiple local commits already(Skip Step 1)
• Create project directory folder
• Create files/folders/anything inside it
• Now this folder is still not a git repo(that tracks changes)
• Open git bash to the parent directory(as per basics)
• First thing initialise it with git command: git init
• .git (may be hidden) folder is created which will now track the changes now in this directory
• set user name and user email for this directory if it is different from the global user
• Check credential using git command: git config -l
  • If it shows user.name and user.email set to the credential you want then nothing to do.
  • If not set name and email using using git command:
    • git config user.name "Your name"
    • git config user.email "emailid@thatcompany.com"
  • Check again if the new credentials(if different) appears at end of list command: git config -l
• Check status of tracked files command: git status
• Add files to track. Easiest command: git add --all
• Now time to commit this much
• Commit command: git commit -m "first local commit"
• Do more commits if needed

2. Steps [ Github ] (or any git online tool):

• Github does not have option to create a new repo from cli before installing some kind of other tool (as per last I know)
• So first create a new repo on Github(I named it local-folder-to-github same as my local folder name)
• Didn't selected the option to create a readme as I alreadt created one here
• Time to connect this local folder to online repo
• Copy repo url from github(in my case: https://github.com/abhi5658/local-folder-to-github.git)
• Now got to cli and add remote to this local repo:
  • Git command: git remote add origin <repo_url> (e.g. git remote add origin https://github.com/abhi5658/local-folder-to-github.git)
    • This will let the local repository know that there is a reomte repo to which it has to push changes
    • This statement sets origin alias to remote repo url
  • There's another way to directly push the changes with the repo url directly:
    • Git command: git push --set-upstream origin master to push the local changes to master branch on your online git repo. OR other way:
    • Git command: git push <repo_url> (e.g. git push https://github.com/abhi5658/local-folder-to-github.git)
    • This will be succesful if there's zero commits on the remote repo
    • If any issue, related to error of unrelated history due to commits present on remote, follow next steps
• Check if this is connected now, git command: git remote -v
  • shows the fetch and push remote urls
• You can try pushing the local commits but that would fail as first you need to pull remote commits
• Time to pull the remote commits to local repo:
  • Git command: git pull origin master
  • produces error: 'fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories'
  • By pass this error by git command: git pull origin master --allow-unrelated-histories
  • This would merge the local commits with the pulled commits(initial commit)
• Push local commits to remote repo:
  • Git command: git push origin master
• Now the local commits and whole local folder(also a git repository) is pushed to online(remote) repository.

3. Video depicting similar steps: https://youtu.be/fQLK8Ib_SKk?list=PL4cUxeGkcC9goXbgTDQ0n_4TBzOO0ocPR&t=324