github-cheatsheet

echo "# github-cheatsheet" >> README.md

git init

git add README.md

git commit -m "first commit"

git branch -M main

git remote add origin https://github.com/blentz100/github-cheatsheet.git

git push -u origin main

common problems when first using github

You try to push your code to your Github repo but you get this error:

src refspec master does not match any

If you see this error, it's possible your local branch is named master and the remote is named main. You can run git status to see what your local branch name is. After you first iniatilize your local git repo, it's a good idea to change the branch name to main by typing git branch -M main.

It's also a really good idea to change your default git configuration to always use main as the default branch name so you don't have to change it every time you make a new repo. You can do that by running $ git config --global init.defaultBranch main. If that doesn't work for you, read this article