Here is a quick how-to on how to create a local Git repository and push to a remote repository. Call it Git 101!
For those that don’t know, Git is a source code management system that was initially developed by Linus Torvalds for the Linux Kernel.
First, open a new console session and check to see that Git is installed on your system.
$ git --version git version 1.8.5.2.msysgit.0
If Git is not installed on your system, please see http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Installing-Git.
Once you have verified that Git is installed, the next step is to navigate to the root folder of your project and initialize a new repository.
$ git init Initialized empty Git repository in d:/Development/ArchConnect/.git
Now that we have an empty Git repository we will want to add our file. First, we can check to see if there any files to add.
$ git status On branch master Initial commit Untracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) ArchConnect.Web/ ArchConnect.sln ArchConnect.v12.suo packages/ nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
As you can see there are a number of untracked files so go ahead and add them to the repository.
$ git add .
Run the git status command again to see what Git has done.
$ git status On branch master Initial commit Changes to be committed: (use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage) new file: ArchConnect.Web/App_Start/RouteConfig.cs new file: ArchConnect.Web/ArchConnect.Web.csproj new file: ArchConnect.Web/ArchConnect.Web.csproj.user new file: ArchConnect.Web/Controllers/HomeController.cs new file: ArchConnect.Web/Global.asax new file: ArchConnect.Web/Global.asax.cs new file: ArchConnect.Web/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs new file: ArchConnect.Web/Scripts/jquery-1.10.2.intellisense.js new file: ArchConnect.Web/Scripts/jquery-1.10.2.js ...
Next, commit the files to the local Git repository.
$ git commit -m "Initial Commit" [master (root-commit) 855a778] Initial Commit 80 files changed, 79239 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ArchConnect.Web/App_Start/RouteConfig.cs create mode 100644 ArchConnect.Web/ArchConnect.Web.csproj create mode 100644 ArchConnect.Web/ArchConnect.Web.csproj.user create mode 100644 ArchConnect.Web/Controllers/HomeController.cs create mode 100644 ArchConnect.Web/Global.asax create mode 100644 ArchConnect.Web/Global.asax.cs create mode 100644 ArchConnect.Web/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs create mode 100644 ArchConnect.Web/Scripts/jquery-1.10.2.intellisense.js create mode 100644 ArchConnect.Web/Scripts/jquery-1.10.2.js ...
Now that all your code has been committed to your local repository, you will need to push your changes to a remote repository to keep them safe.
Usually your remote Git repository will be hosted on a server. The process of getting Git installed on a server is the same as on your workstation. (Alternatively, you can also create a GitHib account to host your remote Git repositories.)
Before you can push your code to your remote repository, you need to initialize a bare repository on the server.
$ git init ArchConnect.git --bare Initialized empty Git repository in /home/ckooiker/git/repos/ArchConnect.git/
Back on your workstation add the remote repository.
$ git remote add origin username@myawesomeserver:/home/ckooiker/git/repos/ArchConnect.git
When you have your remote repository setup you can go ahead and push the changes.
$ git push origin master Counting objects: 87, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (74/74), done. Writing objects: 100% (87/87), 1.77 MiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Total 87 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0) To username@myawesomeserver:/home/ckooiker/git/repos/ArchConnect.git * [new branch] master -> master
And that’s it, our source code has been committed to remote repository!
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