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Overview

Once you have created your code and you are happy with it, you can push the code to the remote repository.

Learning Outcome

  • How to create a remote repository.
  • How to link your code to the remote repository with your local repository.
  • How to push your code to the remote repository.

Create a Remote Repository on GitHub

  1. Go to your GitHub Account.
  2. Click the "+" button on the top right of your profile picture and click "New Repository".
  3. Enter a name for your remote repository.
  4. Click public or private, either one is fine.
  5. Click the green "Create Repository" button.

Tip

you should name your remote repository with a unique name becuase it will be easier to find the repository on Github if you have multiple projects that is going on.

Connect the Local Repository to the Remote Repository

Type the following commands inside the terminal but don't run it just yet.

git remote add origin https://github.com/<Your_username>/<your_repository_name.git>

git remote is a command that will list all the remotes that is available on your Git repository that is running behind the scene.

Note

If you run the command git remote without the add origin follow by the url in your terminal nothing happens. This is because you have not set your remote repository as the remote to your local repository.

To set the remote type, enter git remote add origin followed by a space and paste in the URL that you see above.

Important

Replace <Your_username> and <your_repository_name.git> name with your username and repository name that you assigned.

Ensure that you have replaced the necessary information in the GitHub URL before running the command.

Now, you can run the git remote add origin command.

Sending Your Code to the Remote Repository

Now that you have added a remote repository, you can send your latest code by using git push.

git push is a command that takes two arguments:

1. The first arguments is the name of the remote repository.

2. The second argument is the branch name of the remote repository.

origin is just an alias name or "short name" that refers to the repository name.

Note

You can change origin to any name that you want to be. For example, we changed origin to apple: 

git remote add apple https://github.com/<Your_username>/<your_repository_name.git>
git push -u apple main

To push your code to the remote repository to GitHub, run this command.

git push -u origin main

Note

When you push your code up to the newly added remote repository, using the -u will tell Git to save the repository as the default push destination for your current branch. Meaning everytime you push your code to the main or master branch you will only need to run git push instead of git push origin main (or git push origin master).

Now go back to the browser and refresh the page, you can see the latest version of your remote repository.

Conclusion

Congratulation 🎉, you have successfully uploaded your code to the Remote Repository with git.

  • learned what is remote repository is.
  • Learned how to use git push and pushed to the remote repository.