Pushing a local repository to GitHub

I usually end up looking for these steps every time I write a blog post with a code sample that I in the end push up to GitHub. So the steps I do are:

1. Creating and committing to a local git repository
2. Create a GitHub repository with License (and readme)
3. Configure the local repository to push it to GitHub

Step one is usually done by creating a new Solution in Visual Studio which automatically adds the .gitignore file according to my C# project which is very helpful to not ending up committing the bin folder and the NuGet package binaries.

After finishing my solution I go to GitHub and create a new repository, in the setup process you can add a License file and a blank readme. You could also add the .gitignore at this step but as some of my code gets thrown away as it is of no use I tend to first start locally and then push the solution once I feel it has some value to add.

Now once all is set up on GitHub I use the Git Shell which you get after installing GitHub for Windows . There navigate to the root of your project and add the repository (you find the URI after creating the repository) with the following line:

git remote add origin https://github.com/your-account/the-repository-name

Next verify that your branch has been successfully added as a remote branch:

git remote -v

First we have to get the remote branch to our local repository:

git fetch

Then set the upstream branch:

git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/main main

Pull the license and possible readme (et al):

git pull

Now you can simply push your main branch to GitHub:

git push

And all is good :-)

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