How To Upload Files on GitHub

Question

I have recently downloaded GitHub and created a repository on it. I am trying to upload an Objective C project in it. How do I go about doing this?

Answer 1

I didn't find the above answers sufficiently explicit, and it took me some time to figure it out for myself. The most useful page I found was: http://www.lockergnome.com/web/2011/12/13/how-to-use-github-to-contribute-to-open-source-projects/

I'm on a Unix box, using the command line. I expect this will all work on a Mac command line. (Mac or Window GUI looks to be available at desktop.github.com but I haven't tested this, and don't know how transferable this will be to the GUI.)

Step 1: Create a Github account Step 2: Create a new repository, typically with a README and LICENCE file created in the process. Step 3: Install "git" software. (Links in answers above and online help at github should suffice to do these steps, so I don't provide detailed instructions.) Step 4: Tell git who you are:

git config --global user.name "<NAME>" git config --global user.email "<email>" 

I think the e-mail must be one of the addresses you have associated with the github account. I used the same name as I used in github, but I think (not sure) that this is not required. Optionally you can add caching of credentials, so you don't need to type in your github account name and password so often. https://help.github.com/articles/caching-your-github-password-in-git/

Create and navigate to some top level working directory:

mkdir <working> cd <working> 

Import the nearly empty repository from github:

git clone https://github.com/<user>/<repository> 

This might ask for credentials (if github repository is not 'public'.) Move to directory, and see what we've done:

cd <repository> ls -a git remote -v 

(The 'ls' and 'git remote' commands are optional, they just show you stuff) Copy the 10000 files and millions of lines of code that you want to put in the repository:

cp -R <path>/src . git status -s 

(assuming everything you want is under a directory named "src".) (The second command again is optional and just shows you stuff)

Add all the files you just copied to git, and optionally admire the the results:

git add src git status -s 

Commit all the changes:

git commit -m "<commit comment>" 

Push the changes

git push origin master 

"Origin" is an alias for your github repository which was automatically set up by the "git clone" command. "master" is the branch you are pushing to. Go look at github in your browser and you should see all the files have been added.

Optionally remove the directory you did all this in, to reclaim disk space:

cd .. rm -r <working>