Question

I created a directory called spring labs on one machine then pushed it to a repository on github, now I want to download the entire repository onto another machine. I am following the steps for forking to do this I have cloned it then fetched the upstream but I don’t understand how I get the directory onto my machine to edit the files and be able to push back to the repository, I don’t fully grasp github yet.

Answer 1

So let’s assume you have a repository called Blah on Github. Furthermore, let’s assume this repo contains the files you wish to work on, etc.

On the machine you wish to download your repository onto, do the following:

$ git clone [e-mail]:anderskitson/Blah.git
$ cd Blah

Now all your files should be available in the Blah subdirectory.

Now assume you’ve made and commited all your changes. How would you push them back up to Github?

$ cd Blah
$ git commit -am 'This is my commit message.'
$ git push origin master

This assumes that the name of the branch you wish to push back up is master.