How to upload a new project to Github repository

Here is how you would do it in Windows:

1. If you don't have git installed, see this article on how to set it up.
2. Open up a Windows command prompt.
1.  [shortcut way: Go to the project root . press Shift+ right click]
2. Open windows powershell or command prompt
3. If you follow the above shortcut your directory already located. Otherwise, Change into the directory where your source code is located in the command prompt.
4. First, create a new repository in this directory git init. This will say "Initialized empty git repository in ....git" (... is the path).
5. Now you need to tell git about your files by adding them to your repository. Do this with git add filename. If you want to add all your files, you can do git add . Here "." is also important if you need to add all the files and folders .
6. Now that you have added your files and made your changes, you need to commit your changes so git can track them. Type git commit -m "adding files". -m lets you add the commit message in line.

So far, the above steps is what you would do even if you were not using github. They are the normal steps to start a git repository. Remember that git is distributed (decentralized), means you don't need to have a "central server" (or even a network connection), to use git.

Now you want to push the changes to your git repository hosted with github. To you this by telling git to add a remote location, and you do that with this command:

git remote add origin https://github.com/yourusername/your-repo-name.git




*Note: your-repo-name should be created in GitHub  before you do a git remote add origin ...

New Repository

you must select private if you want to keep the project only for you, not for public.

7. Open your project in Visual Studio and Go to Manage Connection> connect to github

 Once you have done that, git now knows about your remote repository. You can then tell it to push (which is "upload") your commited files:

git push -u origin master