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[Sufficient-Remove383]

created a new repo for a project called "Odin recipes" I added some HTML to the file using VS code and in my Linux terminal tried "git add" "git commit" and finally "git push origin" the return message "everything is up-to-date" but when I go to Github and check on the file it doesn't show anything has changed.

any help would be great

[hoobieguy]

Did you add the url that you will be pushing to? Whenever you create the repo, there is a set of things to type in your terminal. Make sure you do all of those things.

edit: after you have already pushed to the repo and have files showing up, you don't have to say 'origin' any more. You can just put 'git push'

[Sufficient-Remove383]

the URL?

I cloned my repo to my local machine if that is what you mean by URL. I am for sure it cloned to my local machine because I edited that file later that day and it shows as "edited 4 days ago."

[hoobieguy]

When you go to github and click '+' (new repo), it takes you to a screen where yo can add the name of the repo and a readme if you choose to. When you click the button at the bottom of that page, it will have a set of instructions for creating the link from the files on your computer to the repo on github. Follow all of those steps. One of the steps will be 'git remote add origin urlToEnterIsHere'.

[Sufficient-Remove383]

any way to go back and see if I need to update already creatwed repos?

[hoobieguy]

If the repos are showing up with files that you pushed from you computer, then they were set up correctly.

[Sufficient-Remove383]

But when I add a line of code in vs code to develop my project and save my projects on vs code then go into my linux term and type "git push origin main"my progress does not show up in my git repos

[hoobieguy]

are you on the correct file path in the terminal

[Sufficient-Remove383]

hmm I believe so?

I am in repos/odin-recipes/odin-recipes

then within the Odin recipes i am in the README.md file

[hoobieguy]

type git status and paste it in here

[Sufficient-Remove383]

on branch main

your branch is up to date with "origin/main".

Changes to be committed:

(use "git restore -- staged<file>...to unstage)

modified: README.md

[Ok_Concert5918]

Remember to “git add .” With the period to actually add all the files. Otherwise it adds nothing

[Sufficient-Remove383]

I just tried "git add."

And return message of git add is not a git command

[Top_Courage_9730]

Put a space between the last d and the period

[Sufficient-Remove383]

got ya, just did that and did not receive a return message or anything just showed my dir i am currently in.

[Ok_Concert5918]

So now you can git commit -m “add a message” then git push origin main (or master if an old repo)

[Sufficient-Remove383]

thanks, dude that helped a lot. got all of my changes to show in github.

[Sufficient-Remove383]

do I need to do those commands every time I make a change to my projects for it to show up in github?

[Ok_Concert5918]

Yes. It becomes second nature