Push Your Project to GitHub

[MUSIC] 0:00 In this stage, we'll go in depth with some of GitHub's most essential features, 0:04 issues using markdown, branching, and pull requests. 0:09 Used together, these features are the backbone of open source on GitHub. 0:13 And learning how to use them to add your projects to the site, 0:17 will be a great foundation to both showcase your work, and 0:19 start contributing to the open source community. 0:22 So, now that we've created a repository, let's open our terminal and 0:25 push up a project to GitHub. 0:29 Quick review. 0:31 When I say push, I'm talking about the Git push command where we'll push our 0:32 project on our local computer, up to a remote repository on GitHub. 0:36 Later, we'll talk about Git pull, where we'll go over pulling the latest changes 0:40 from a remote repository down to our local computer. 0:44 I want to push up the files from the Treehouse Python course I recently 0:47 finished, so I'm in my completed Python Basics work space. 0:51 You can follow along using a work space for a course you've already completed, or 0:55 if you have Git installed on your local computer, 0:59 you can use your computer's console. 1:01 First, let's take care of some Git configurations. 1:04 I'll check the Git version by typing git--version. 1:07 Great, it looks like we have Git installed, and we're on version 1.8. 1:11 That's perfect. 1:14 We can check to see if we have any configurations already set up, 1:15 by typing git config --list. 1:18 Nope. 1:23 Okay, so then we'll need to set up our name and email address, so 1:24 Git knows who we are. 1:27 The commands for this are git config --global user.name, 1:29 your name in quotes, and git config --global-. 1:36 User.email and your email address in quotes. 1:46 Make sure the email you use is the email associated with your GitHub account. 1:57 These commands are also linked in the teacher's notes. 2:02 If using your local computer, I've added some additional links for 2:04 helpful command line configuration, for maximum Git and GitHub effectiveness. 2:07 Now, typically the name of the local directory matches 2:12 the remote repository's name. 2:14 So, I'm gonna create a folder, Treehouse, and move my files into it. 2:16 I'll type mkdir Treehouse. 2:19 This creates the directory, Treehouse. 2:25 And I'll type mv, which stands for move, *.py, 2:28 which says everything with the .py extension move to this directory. 2:33 Now if I cd or change directory into the Treehouse folder, and 2:42 I ls list everything out, I can see my two files are now in that folder structure. 2:48 And if I'm using work spaces over here, I can just click and refresh. 2:54 I can see that the two files are also under the Treehouse folder structure 3:01 in work spaces. 3:04 Next, we'll want to initialize the Git repository, so we'll type git init. 3:06 Initialized empty Git repository. 3:12 Great. 3:15 And then we'll type, git status. 3:15 This lists out all the files in the directory. 3:20 Okay, let's read what it says. 3:23 On branch master, we're on the master branch, and 3:24 this is because master is the default branch to be on, so this is great. 3:28 Un-tracked files, use git add, to include what will be committed. 3:32 So, I can type git add and the file name, to add a single file. 3:38 However, if we have multiple files like we do, that can be a bit tedious. 3:42 Instead, I'll use the shortcut git add ., to add all the files in the directory. 3:46 Next we'll commit, git commit -m and 3:54 in quotes we'll type, initial commit. 3:58 This commits all of the files and the -m adds the message initial commit. 4:03 Two files changed, lumberjack and number_game.py. 4:10 Great. 4:14 Now, we'll add our remote repository from GitHub. 4:15 GitHub provides us a shortcut with these commands we need here. 4:22 We'll copy the first line, and back in the terminal. 4:26 We'll paste it in. 4:33 This creates a remote, or said differently, 4:36 a connection named origin, pointing to the GitHub repo. 4:38 Now we'll push up our project. 4:42 Type in git push origin master. 4:44 This sends your commits in your master branch to GitHub. 4:49 You'll need to type in your user name and password. 4:52 If you're using your local computer, you can use the link in the teachers notes, 4:59 to cache your password so you don't have to type it in every time. 5:03 Congratulations, your project is now on GitHub. 5:06 To check it out, we'll refresh the page and we can see all of our files. 5:09 And if we click in, we can see the code. 5:13 Okay, so to review, 5:16 here are the commands we use to get our local project hosted on GitHub. 5:18 Git init, git status, git add. 5:23 Git commit -m quote initial commit git push origin master. 5:27 If you are working by yourself and pushing up projects, 5:34 those last four commands will be the ones you use over and over again. 5:37 Memorize these, or write them down on a sticky note where you can see them. 5:41 Next up, we'll use issues to track tasks related to our project. 5:45