Clone repository into GitHub

Question

I have been using git locally for while a now and have a private repository with complete change history etc. I now want to share this on GitHub, so I need to clone from my local repo into a new GitHub repo. I cannot find any way to do this. How can I get all my history up onto GitHub?

Answer 1

You don't need to "clone onto GitHub". You just have to create a repository on GitHub and push your changes there:

$ cd your_local_repo $ git remote add origin [email protected]:USERNAME/REPO_NAME.git $ git push origin master 

Answer 2

You simply want to create a new repository on your account on GitHub. Assuming your account name is CraigH, and you call you new repository NewRepo (imaginative, I know), you'd simply (assuming you have GitHub keys set up on your system properly):

1. Add a remote to your local repository
   • git remote add origin [email protected]:CraigH/NewRepo.git
2. Push out your current history to GitHub
   • git push --set-upstream origin master

And from that point, your history in the master branch are in GitHub's master branch.