Create a file called question.txt
in your new repo (inside the folder you downloaded with git clone
) and add the question "What makes you excited about programming?".
Feel free to do this however you are most comfortable creating and editing files, but please save it as a .txt
file instead of .doc
or any other file extension.
- Check the status of your new file with:
git status
You should see something like:
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
Untracked files:
(use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
question.txt
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
-
Add the file to git's tracking with:
git add question.txt
-
Use
git status
to check the status of your file again. What is different? Now you should see something like:
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
Changes to be committed:
(use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
new file: question.txt
To commit your changes and create a save point, use:
git commit -m "added question.txt file"
Tip: -m
allows you to specify a commit message. The commit message should be short and descriptive about the purpose of the commit or what you changed in the repo.
Note: add the -s
flag to the git commit command, to add signature to the commit
$ git commit -s -m your commit message
You should see:
[master 41e204c] added question.txt file
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 question.txt
To see which remote branches your branch is tracking, use:
git remote -v
You should see something like:
origin [email protected]:<gitusername>/<repo>.git (fetch)
origin [email protected]:<gitusername>/<repo>.git (push)
Then to push your committed changes from your local machine to the remote GitHub repo, where others can see it or clone it, use:
git push origin main
If you had cloned using HTTPS URL
. This should prompt you for your GitHub username and password. You won't see your password on the screen as you type it in.
If you had cloned using SSH URL
. It would directly push to the remote url.
Then you should see:
Enumerating objects: 4, done.
Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 330 bytes | 330.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To github.com:<gitusername>/<repo>.git
9e62e6c..41e204c main -> main