Git Commands

3 April, 2025

Steps to connect to a git repo

Create the repo on Github
Create a folder on your local device that you want to old the repo
git clone {repo_url_from_github}
git remote set-url origin {repo_url_from_github}
git config –global user.name “name"
git config –global user.email “email”
git branch newbranch
git checkout newbranch
make changes to code
git add .
git commit . -m “commit message”
git push origin main
Go to github and create a new pull request

Steps to start a repo on local and push to github

In Progress

Various git commands

git pull origin main ==> pulls from the main branch to local checked out branch
git remote add {alias} {url} -> git remote add origin github.com/url