Setup a brand new repo on Git

brand_new_repo_git.md

1) Configure your user and email for Git via the following command.

• configure the user which will be used by git

• Of course you should use your name

  git config --global user.name "Example Surname"

• Same for the email address

  git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

2) Push configuration

• set default so that all changes are always pushed to the repository

  git config --global push.default "matching"

3) Avoid merge commits for pulling

• set default so that you avoid unnecessary commits

  git config --global branch.autosetuprebase always

4) Color Highlighting

> git config --global color.ui true
> git config --global color.status auto
> git config --global color.branch auto

5) Query existing global Git settings

> git config --list

6) Then go to the folder which you want to add on the repository. And fire below command:

• Initialize the Git repository
• for the current directory

  git init

7) Status of the repository

> git status

8) Add files to Git index

• add all files to the index of the
• Git repository

  git add .

9) Commit to Git repository

• commit your file to the local repository

  git commit -m "Initial commit"

10) Show Log

• show the Git log for the change

  git log

11) Create the remote repository, and get the URL such as git://github.com/youruser/somename.git

12) to attach your remote repo with the name 'origin' (like cloning would do)

> git remote add origin [URL From Step 11]

13) to push up your master branch (change master to something else for a different branch):

> git push origin master

Steps to follow for commiting regular changes

1) Add all the files which are changed:

> git add <specify files here>

2) Commit all the added files

> git commit -m "commit status"

3) Push all the commited changes to Git

> git push origin master

That's all!