Beginner's guide to : Initiate a Git project

Assuming: Active github account is made, SSH public keys passed and a new repository already created on the site.

First you need to know the address of your new repository, this can be easily found on the repository page (http://github.com/username/repository_name), the addy supposed to look like this below :

On your local console run :

$ mkdir myNewRepo
$ cd myNewRepo
 
$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit * -m "write your message here"
$ git remote add git@github.com:ms-egg-gee/pronto.git
$ git push origin master

Basically, what it did was :

1) & 2) self explained
4) initiate the directory to be git-i-fied
5) add all files & folders inside the directory
6) stage the changes to be committed
7) self explained
8) commit changes to remote repository