How-To Getting start with git

Serhii Horoshko
1 min readJul 20, 2020

All examples located to the gitlab.com, in the first step you need to create an account.

Create a new repository

git clone git@gitlab.com:gitlab.login.name/example.git
cd example
touch README.md
git add README.md
git commit -m "add README"
git push -u origin master

Existing folder

cd existing_folder
git init
git remote add origin git@gitlab.com:gitlab.login.name/example.git
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push -u origin master

Existing Git repository

cd existing_repo
git remote rename origin old-origin
git remote add origin git@gitlab.com:gitlab.login.name/example.git
git push -u origin --all
git push -u origin --tags

Git global setup

git config --global user.name "FirstName LastName"
git config --global user.email "mailname@example.com"

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