git - Pushing from local repository to GitHub hosted remote

Question

I created a local repository of my Visual Studio 2010 solution folder using Git GUI on my dev machine. I then created a remote repository in my GitHub account. Now, I am looking for how to push my local repository to the remote repository.

In SVN I can just commit using TortoiseSVN and changes are pushed to the remote repository. I don't see any tool like that available for Git.

How do I push my local repo to my remote repo on GitHub?

Answer 1

You push your local repository to the remote repository using the git push command after first establishing a relationship between the two with the git remote add [alias] [url] command. If you visit your Github repository, it will show you the URL to use for pushing. You'll first enter something like:

git remote add origin git@github.com:username/reponame.git

Unless you started by running git clone against the remote repository, in which case this step has been done for you already.

And after that, you'll type:

git push origin master

After your first push, you can simply type:

git push

when you want to update the remote repository in the future.