GitHub

After a commit, go to GitHub and create a repo. Follow the GitHub provided prompts. Push your existing local repo from your computer terminal to GitHub.

• git remote add origin https://github.com/githubusername/githubrepo.git
• git branch -M main
• git push -u origin main

git remote add origin https://github.com/githubusername/githubrepo.git

Add a remote repository (Github) to your local repository. Origin is the name of your remote repository. The web address is where you can find the repository on GitHub.

git branch -M main

Set the name of the branch to main. The -M is for move/rename.

git push -u origin main

Pushes your local main branch to the remote repository named origin.