Create a new repository
- Create a new empty repo in your account on the GitHub website.
- Locally, in your new project directory, open Git Bash and run the following commands:
echo "Hello, world!" >> README.md
git init
git add .
git commit -m "First commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/<username>/<repo-name>.git
git push -u origin main
Push an existing project to a remote repo
- Create a new empty repo in your account on the GitHub website.
- Locally, in your project directory, open Git Bash and run the following commands:
git init -b main
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git remote add origin https://github.com/<username>/<repo-name>.git
git push -u origin main
If you’re remote repo has preexisting files, run a pull command before you push.
git pull origin main
Other Useful Commands
In case of a “fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories” Git error, run this command:
git pull origin main --allow-unrelated-histories
git push -u origin main
Branch Name
git branch
Rebase
git pull --rebase origin main
git push -u origin main
Rename current master branch to main
git branch -m main
Move the ‘master’ branch to ‘main’
git branch -m master main
Point HEAD to ‘main’ branch
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main