Use_Github.md

Github Repository Initialization:

1. Create new private repository on the Github website. Initialize with a .gitignore file to exclude random/unneeded files to the repo. I don’t usually initialize repo’s with a README because I create and add them from my local branch.

2. From the terminal, navigate to the folder where you want to initialize the repo and enter the following command.

   git init

3. Use the following command to link the appropriate repository. The remote url is found within the repository as shown in the following figure.
   

   git remote add origin <remote url>

4. Add all the updated files.

   git add .

5. Make the first commit.

   git commit -m “First commit.”

6. Push all the changes into the repo.

   git push -u origin master

   Note: If the repo was initialized with any supplementary files (e.g. README, .gitignore, etc.) an extra command will be needed here to merge unrelated histories. Else, skip the following command.

   git pull --allow-unrelated-histories master