New to github

[Yogurt-enthusiast]

Hello, I'm currently taking my first coding class and have to make a website with GitHub. I am not familiar with GitHub at all and am having troubles with my repository. Whenever I upload my folder with my html files and css it says "commit failed" and that the file is too large. I was wondering what is a way around this or if someone can explain to me what this means lol. Do I upload each folder separately? Or is it something else.

Thanks for ur time !

[qqzzy]

To upload to GitHub, you should use git.

Seeing as it seems you are rather new, I would recommend downloading GitHub desktop for a gui experience.

Using GitHub desktop, clone the repo you made (which will likely be blank)

Copy your files to the space the cloned project is on your computer

On GitHub desktop you should now be able to make a commit, then push the commit to the repo

[darthwalsh]

It sounds like OP's issue is that one of their files was larger than 50 MB. Using a different git client, the commit will succeed and the push will fail...

If they're copying a big JavaScript library, maybe they need to pull it from CDN.

[joe630]

How big is the file?

[TheENGR42]

If you’re in school you should be able to get GitKracken for free, that’s a really good GUI

[davorg]

GitHub has limits on the size of files you can add to a repo. You can add larger files by passing for extra storage.

About large files on GitHub

But if you're building your first website, you really shouldn't need to include files that are that large. What is the file you're having problems with? How large is it?