[NFBCS] git question

[Paul York]

There should never be any "zipping" involved in using Git + GitHub. Easiest
thing here is:

1. First create the github repository using your browser. Choose
an appropriate project type (e.g., NodeJS or React) to create a .gitignore
file for that kind of project.
2. On your PC in your terminal "git clone" this repository into a directory.
3. Now on your PC, copy all of the files you want to "upload" into this new
directory. Note that often you'd want a separate GitHub repository per
project. But if you are doing a lot of tutorial projects and just want to
save time, you can create a single repository and just dump all of your
tutorial projects in there as separate subdirectories.
4. In the terminal, cd into the directory that you cloned into. Then you
can then add ALL of the files you just copied to the git repository with
this command:

  git add --all

Then commit them with:

  git commit -m "some message goes here"

Finally "push" them (i.e., upload them) with:

  git push

It is also possible to use "git init" and "git add remote" to turn an
existing project folder into a git repository instead of copying all of the
files into a closed directory, bypassing steps 2 & 3 above. But it's a bit
more involved and error prone as it involves merging.

On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 6:16 AM marvin hunkin via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hi. Well do have a git hub account and signed in. and got git installed
> latest version. 2.45. now is there a way to then upload the main folder
> with all the sub folders and other stuff in the git. Which then uploads or
> do I have to then spend a lot of time having to zip up each folder. If say
> 30 or more projects.
>
> So, did do three linkedin learning courses and the videos where handy. And
> then got the sample code and then just then learned how to write the code
> for the parts I did not know.
>
> Any one done a lot with git.
>
> Marvin.
>
>
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