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Okay.

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So let's talk about how we actually get our code up on GitHub.

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How do we take a local git repo on our laptop?

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And how do I connect that in some way to a hosted GitHub repo?

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How do I connect them?

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How do I set up the repo on GitHub?

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And then what do I do on my machine to tell it about the GitHub repo?

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Well, there's really two different approaches or two options that I'm going to walk through in this

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video.

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I'm just going to talk about both of them and just explain how they work and then we'll dive into actually

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doing them.

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So the first option called option one is if you have an existing repo on your machine, if you have

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something that you've already been working on, it already has git history, you already have code,

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whatever it is, and you want to get that on GitHub.

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These would be the steps that you follow.

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You create a new repo on GitHub, then you connect your local repo by adding something called a remote.

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We'll go into that.

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So you add that remote to your local machine and then you push your changes up to GitHub.

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So here's some diagrams.

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If I have something I've been working on, whether it's just a day of work, an hour of work, an empty

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repository that I've created or years of work, whatever it is, if it's on my machine and not on GitHub,

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I go on to GitHub and I make a new empty repository.

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I'll show that in just a moment to.

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So once I make that new empty repository, then what I do is tell my computer.

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Specifically tell this git repository about the GitHub repository.

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And then I can push my code up to the GitHub repo.

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The other option is if I don't have anything done yet, I don't have a repo anywhere.

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I know I want to start a project and I know right out of the gate that I also want to use GitHub alongside

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Git.

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If that's the case, I can start on GitHub, make a new repo on GitHub and clone that down to my machine

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as an empty repository.

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Instead of running git init I can clone down my github repo that's empty and start working in that repo

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and then push it up to GitHub.

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And if I do it that way, I don't have to manually connect my local repo to my GitHub repo because if

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I clone this repo from GitHub, it automatically is connected to that GitHub URL.

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So some diagrams to illustrate that.

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I don't have any repositories yet either on GitHub or on my machine.

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And I start by making a new repo on GitHub, which I'm visualizing is this empty container, and then

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I clone that down to my laptop.

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And because it came from this clone, it automatically knows about this GitHub URL.

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So now I can do my work locally and push it up.

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I don't have to connect them in any way, but I'm going to actually start by showing you the other option.

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Option one, because you may have some existing code.

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I mean, we certainly have existing repos from the course.

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None of them are very useful, but we have existing repos.

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Right.

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We've been working with Git and let's talk about how to get that on GitHub.

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So to do that, the first step is to make an empty GitHub repo.

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So if you want to follow along, start by just picking some git repository that we've made or that you've

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made that you want to get on GitHub.

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So it doesn't have to be something that you make public and it doesn't have to be something that you

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keep up there, right?

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You can delete it or get rid of it immediately if you don't want people to see it.

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So we've done quite a few different repositories.

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Why don't I just take that really simple book repository?

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My first novel.

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All right.

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So it's a disastrous repo.

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I'd like to get all of this up on GitHub.

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All right.

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All this history, all my files.

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One more time.

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This is what I'm dealing with.

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So whatever you have found, if you have a repo you want to follow along with, the first step is to

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go on GitHub.

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So once you're signed in and create a new empty repo and there's a couple of buttons to do that, one

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is just this green button if you're on the home page new or if you're somewhere else like I'm on Marketplace.

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If I click the plus new repo right there, then I see this page create a new repository.

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So we need to come up with a name about GitHub, demo, novel or something like that.

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This is just a name that we'll use to identify it on GitHub, right?

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It doesn't have to match anything from our actual repository that we have locally, but we don't want

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spaces.

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It will automatically add dashes for us.

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I don't know, I just put them in there myself.

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But we don't need to do that.

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You don't really need a description, although you should put one in, especially if you plan on having

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other people see this repo or discover it.

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But we will talk more about that to keep this short and simple.

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I'm not going to put a description in there and then we can decide if it's public or private.

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Now, I'm going to keep this public in case some of you want to take a look at the repo, although,

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frankly, for the contents of this book, it's probably best for my reputation if I do make it private.

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That just means that if someone looks at my profile, if they search, they're not going to find this

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repository.

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They don't have access to it.

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But if it's public, anyone can see it.

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And then I'm not going to touch this.

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We will come back and talk more about these files later.

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I'm just going to click Create Repository.

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And did I click?

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I might have not.

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I guess I didn't click.

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And we now see this page here.

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So my username, Colt Slash and then the repository name, and then inside of it.

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There's not really anything to look at right now except for a couple of instructions.

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All right, so I'll stop here.

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We've made an empty GitHub repository.

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Our local repo knows nothing about it.

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They're not connected in any way, but that's going to change in the next video.