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Push an existing repo to GitHub

You've got a local Git repository and are ready to publish it on GitHub. Here's how.

  1. Create a new repository on GitHub. Do not ask GitHub to set a README.md file or a LICENSE file or a .gitignore file. Those should come from your local repo.
  2. Make note of the repository URL.
  3. From the root directory of your local repository, make sure you are in the master branch, and issue the command:
git remote add origin <ssh_prefix>/<github_account>/<repo_name>.git
git push -u origin --all
git push origin --tags

Note that you'll want to have an ~/.ssh/config setup to authenticate access. For example:

Host github-je
    User git
    HostName github.com
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github-jenesuispasdave-id_rsa

Given that config, the git remote add origin command for this repo would look like:

git remote add origin github-je:/JeNeSuisPasDave/til.git

More details here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6865302/push-local-git-repo-to-new-remote-including-all-branches-and-tags

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