My First GitHub Project: From a Local Folder to GitHub Using Git and SSH
⭐🚀⭐🚀 When I first walked through the gates of LuxDevHq, my first thought was "endless possibilities". However, I was intimidated. I did not think I would measure up. But when I attended my first class, I learned that building something great starts with a great foundation and at LuxDevHq, that means mastering all the basics. In the last week, I worked on setting up a local project on my desktop…
My first GitHub project journey began with a sense of excitement and a touch of intimidation when I arrived at LuxDevHq. Despite not feeling confident in my abilities, I learned at my first class that building something remarkable begins with a strong foundation, and mastering the basics is essential. This week, I focused on setting up a local project on my desktop and then pushed it to a live GitHub repository using the command line.
The dataset I worked with was a Kenya_Hospital_Health_Records CSV file, which would be stored in a sub-folder called Data within a main folder named after the file on my desktop. Here are the steps I followed:
1. Local Project Setup: I opened my bash terminal, navigated to my desktop using the cd command, and created both the main folder and the sub-folder. I copied the file into the sub-folder. To create a README.md file containing the project overview, I used echo commands to add headers and text. Finally, I used the cat command to review the contents of the file and nano to edit it.
2. Creating a Tracked Git Repository: I initiated an empty Git repository with git init, checked the repository status with git status, added everything to the current repository with git add ., committed the changes with a message using git commit -m, and linked the local repository to the empty GitHub repository using git remote add origin.
To confirm that my SSH key was working, I executed ssh -T git@github.com. Finally, I pushed the local main branch to the remote origin on GitHub using git push -u origin main, which eased the process of updating the repository in the future.
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