How to add my current project to an already existing GitHub repository

Question

I'm very new to Git. I've been searching for an answer, but I couldn't find one.

In my computer I have a project folder like this:

project_a --some_folder --another_folder --.git 

And I have a repository on GitHub, let’s say https://github.com/company/our_repo.git. Under this repository I have some folders. So my goal is to put my project_a under trunk/bin. How do I achieve this? (Again, I'm very very very new.)

Answer 1

Open your Terminal, access to this folder and write:

git init git add . git commit -m "my commit" git remote set-url origin [email protected]:username/repo.git git push origin master 

Answer 2

I had more luck with navigating in my terminal to the directory I wanted to add to the repository, then (assuming you're working on a branch called master):

    git init     git add .     git commit -m "my commit"     git remote add origin <remote repository URL>     git push origin master 

Here's a link to an article explaining how to do it in more detail: https://help.github.com/articles/adding-an-existing-project-to-github-using-the-command-line/

Note that you won't be able to run the "git add ." line if the directory in question is open.