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Development Tools Putting a Project on GitHub

Posted by Taran Albury
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Taran Albury
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 5,702 Points

When I try to add the "my site" folder into github i keep getting an error message. Anyway to fix this ?

when I try to add the my site folder into GitHub I get a message that says "this directory is not a git repository. Would you like to create on here instead."

1 Answer

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Try cd into the directory that you want to put on GitHub (in the Terminal) and type:

git init

By the way, I recommend learning Git before learning GitHub :)

Taran Albury
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Taran Albury
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 5,702 Points

thanks for the help :)

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

No problem :)