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How to Create and Push Files to a Remote Repository

Overview

In this how-to, you’ll use the command line to create and push new files to a remote repository (GitHub.com).

This how-to is intended for intermediate to expert users of GitHub.

Before you begin

Before you begin this how-to, you must have the following:

  • Git installed and configured on your local computer
  • A repository created and cloned to your local computer
  • A text editor downloaded on your local computer, such as VS Code or Atom

Step-by-step guide

Step 1 — Open your terminal

To run commands, open your local computer's terminal or the text editor's built-in terminal.

Step 2 — Open your cloned repository

In your terminal, do the following to locate and open your cloned repository:

  1. To see your current location path on your local computer, run the pwd command.
  2. To see a list of directories and locate your cloned repository, run the ls command.
  3. To open your cloned repository, run the cd command followed by the name of the cloned repository.
>:$ cd Cloned_Repo_Name
  1. To validate that you have opened your cloned repository, re-run the pwd command.

Step 3 — Check your Git configuration settings

To check your Git configuration settings on your local computer, run the git config -l command in your terminal. The output should list your Git username, email, and other details.

>:$ git config -l
credential.helper=osxkeychain
user.name=<Git_Username>
user.email=<Git_Email>
core.editor=vs code --wait
core.excludesfile=/Users/kaylamorales/.gitignore_global
color.ui=true
difftool.sourcetree.cmd=opendiff "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE"
difftool.sourcetree.path=
mergetool.sourcetree.cmd=/Users/<computername>/Applications/Sourcetree.app/Contents/Resources/opendiff-w.sh "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" -ancestor "$BASE" -merge "$MERGED"
mergetool.sourcetree.trustexitcode=true
commit.template=/Users/<computername>/.stCommitMsg
filter.lfs.process=git-lfs filter-process
filter.lfs.required=true

🚩 NOTE: Your outputs may differ from the output examples in this how-to.

Step 4 — Create a new file

To create a new file in your cloned repository, run the touch command followed by the filename you're giving it in your terminal.

>:$ git touch Filename.md

Step 5 — Stage your file

After you create and edit the file, run the git add . command in your terminal to stage your changes.

>:$ git add .

NOTE: You will not see an output after running the command.

Step 6 — Commit your file

To commit your file, run the git commit -m "<message>" command in your terminal. Within the quotation marks, enter a brief description of your commit.

>:$ git commit -m "Commit_Message"

Afterward, you should see a similar output:

[main a50f2b4] Commit_Message.
 1 file changed, 104 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
 rewrite How-to-Guides/hello_world.md (87%)

Step 7 — Push the file to your remote repository

To publish your changes to your remote repository, run the git push command in your terminal.

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