Create your Java project as usual in Eclipse, do your work, add files, etc. When you are ready to push to GitHub, take the following steps:
- create a repository with the appropriate name in your GitHub account (do not initialize it with a README)
Then from Git Bash (remember to do git status often -- it will tell you what's going on!):
- navigate to your project folder (if it is in the default location, the command would be
cd default-workspace/<project-name>, where<project-name>is the name of your Eclipse project) - initialize your repository with the
git initcommand - add your files to staging using
git add <file-spec>, where<file-spec>is the file or folder you would like to add. Here are some examples:
| To add... | Use this add command |
|---|---|
| all of the files in the current directory (represented as '.') | git add . |
all of the files in the src directory |
git add src |
only the README.md file |
git add README.md |
only the src/main/java/MyClass.java file |
git add src/main/java/MyClass.java |
- commit your files to your local repository via
git commit -m "<commit-message>", where<commit-message>is an appropriate message describing your commit - define the remote (GitHub) repository using
git remote add origin <repository-url>, where<repository-url>is the url for the repository you created in GitHub. - set your upstream to the master branch on your GitHub repository and push your changes via
git push --set-upstream origin master