How to upload a local repository to Github-CodePudding

I am quite new to Git/Github. I am trying to upload my program / website to Github, so I can upload it to Heroku.

I tried a ton of different things, and I am stuck with this for over a week... As far as I know the way to do it is:

git init

git add .

git commit -m 'initial commit

the result I get is:

git init > Reinitialized existing Git repository in /Users/username/test/website/.git/

git add . > error: 'website/' does not have a commit checked out fatal: adding files failed

git commit -m 'initial commit >


Untracked files:

  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

    website/

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

What else can I do to set my website to Github?

CodePudding user response：

If you already have a local git repository on your computer you need to set the remotes to the remote git repository such as:

git remote add origin <link here>

Then you need to stage the changes:

git add .

git commit -m "Initial commit"

git push

CodePudding user response：

"Reinitialized existing Git repository in /Users/username/test/website/.git/",

It looks like you already have a local git repository on your computer. Next step is to create repository in the github, get the https link and do

git remote add origin <your repository https url>
git add .
git commit -m "intializing project"
git push origin <your branch name, ex. master>

CodePudding user response：

First remove .git directory in the website folder. Then try again.

CodePudding user response：

First log in to GitHub and create a repository with the same name as what you want to push in Github. Repository name = Project name.
Then go to the terminal of your project, cd (your project name) and run the following command one by one.[seems you are not at the root of your project]

echo "# (your project name)" >> README.md
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
... ...
git remote add origin https://github.com/Here will be your github acc. name/(Your Repository name = Project name). git
git push -u origin main

If you clone from another repo then instead of remote add origin remote set-url https.. do rest as usual.