How to Push Your Files to GitHub Using Git and Git Bash

@lee-rowe
3 min readJun 18, 2021

GitHub is an online code hosting platform that allows for high quality version control as well as seamless collaboration between users any where in the world. It allows you and others to work together on projects from anywhere by essentially not compromising the integrity of the original project. In this short blog post I will demonstrate how to successfully create a repository.

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To start you will need to need to have installed the Git plugin package, the download comes with multiple tools in the but for this task we will be using Git Bash. You can read more about the other apps that are downloaded here.

Once you have Git installed you will want to create an account if you don’t already have one on GitHub.com, you will want to find the “+” drop down in the top right of the screen, next to your profile drop down. Then you will want to select “New repository”, this is shown below.

After you have created a repository you will want to have Git Bash launched and working. Next you will want to navigate you the folder that contains the files that you are trying to upload. You can do this using the “cd” command.

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