Once you've set up the remote repository, subsequent updates follow a similar pattern:
- Add or make changes to files in your project
- Stage the new/modified files:
git add - Commit your changes:
git commit - Push your local changes to the remote repository:
git push
At any point you can use git status to find out the current state of
your repository. If you have made a local commit that has not yet been
pushed to the remote repository, git status will display a message
indicating that your local branch is ahead of origin/master (the
remote branch). Use
git push
to bring the remote repository up-to-date.
Rather than initialising a local repository, you can start your project by cloning a remote repository from GitHub.
Cloning a remote repository creates a new copy of the repository on
your computer. For example, if you have created a repository on GitHub
called new-repo you can set up a local copy by entering:
git clone https://github.com/username/new-repo.git
This will create a local repository in a directory called new-repo
and populate it with the contents of the remote repository.
If you've only just created the repository on GitHub, running git clone will generate a warning that you've cloned an empty
repository. This is just to remind you that you'll need to add files
and create an initial commit before
you have a version controlled project.
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