New Project

For this exercise we want you to go through the process of:

1. creating a new local repo
2. creating a new remote repo
3. adding the remote repo to the local repo
4. adding files
5. going through the basic git workflow

Creating a New Local Repo

From your home directory create a new directory called hello-git.

Initialize the hello-git/ directory as a local git repository.

Solution

cd ~
mkdir hello-git
cd hello-git
git init

Creating a New Remote Repo

Create a new remote repo on your personal GitHub account named hello-git.

Solution

Adding Remote Repo to Local Repo

cd ~
cd hello-git
git remote add origin [copied-remote-URI]

Adding Files to Local Directory

Add a file called myname.txt and add your name to the contents of the file.

cd ~
cd hello-git
echo "Paul Matthews" > myname.txt

Basic Git Workflow

Add the file to staging, commit the staged changes, and push the commit to the remote repo.

cd ~
cd hello-git
git add myname.txt
git commit -m "added myname.txt" -m "Contents of file contains my name."
git push origin master