Configuring GitHub account

GitHub is an online project hosting service. It offers both paid plans for private repositories, and free accounts for open source projects.

It is the most popular open source code repository. This post provides a simple step by step procedure to configure a free account on GitHub and explains how to upload your projects in to the repository.

1. Create an account at GitHub
Sign up for a free account and verify your email ID.

Here is my GitHub repository : MyProjects

2. Create a repository

A repository is the directory where you keep your projects. See the right corner of your homepage after log in.

Click on the 'Create new repo' icon and a box will appear

Give an appropriate name and description for your repository .

Create it..

Create your directories in an organized manner.

Read this for setting up Git in your system

Uploading Files to the repository

1. First you need to sync your local directory with the Git online directory

Make a directory in your system

mkdir mygitdirectory

cd to mygitdirectory

Now initialise Git by

git init

To sync the online content

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/yourdirectory_path.git

You will see that the entire files inside your local folder.

You can edit the files, add new or delete.

Now you need to commit the changes

Suppose you created a file 'hello' and to upload it to the repository,use the following commands in terminal

git add hello                            //file is added

git commit -m 'first commit'   //commit message

git remote add origin https://github.com/yourusername/MyProject.git           

git push origin master           //pushing file into GitHub

Congratulations !! You have made your first commit