How do I add an existing Solution to GitHub from Visual Studio 2013

Question

I have looked through many web pages on the new Git integration in VS 2013 and they do not deal with adding an existing solution to Github. In fact I can\'t find much on us

Answer 1

Well, I understand this question is Visual Studio GUI related, but maybe the asker can try this trick also. Just giving a different perspective in solving this problem.

I like to use terminal a lot for GIT, so here are the simple steps:

Pre-requisites...

• If it's Linux or MAC, you should have git packages installed on your machine
• If it's Windows, you can try to download git bash software

Now,

1. Goto Github.com
2. In your account, create a New Repository

3. Don't create any file inside the repository. Keep it empty. Copy its URL. It should be something like https://github.com/Username/ProjectName.git

4. Open up the terminal and redirect to your Visual Studio Project directory

5. Configure your credentials

   git config --global user.name "your_git_username"
   git config --global user.email "your_git_email"
   

6. Then type these commands

   git init
   git add .
   git commit -m "First Migration Commit"
   git remote add origin paste_your_URL_here
   git push -u origin master
   

Done...Hope this helps