Push existing project into Github

Question

I have a folder with my project sources. How I can push this project into Github\'s repository?

I tried using this steps:

1. I created empty repository o

Answer 1

Hate to add yet another answer, but my particular scenario isn't quite covered here. I had a local repo with a history of changes I wanted to preserve, and a non-empty repo created for me on Github (that is, with the default README.md). Yes, you can always re-create the Github repo as an empty repo, but in my case someone else has the permissions to create this particular repo, and I didn't want to trouble him, if there was an easy workaround.

In this scenario, you will encounter this error when you attempt to git push after setting the remote origin:

 ! [rejected]        master -> master (fetch first)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git@github.com:.git'
hint: Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do
hint: not have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing
hint: to the same ref. You may want to first integrate the remote changes
hint: (e.g., 'git pull ...') before pushing again.
hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.

As the error indicates, I needed to do a git pull after setting the remote origin, but I needed to specify the --allow-unrelated-histories option. Without this option, git pull complains warning: no common commits.

So here is the exact sequence of commands that worked for me:

git remote add origin 
cp README.md README.md-save
git pull origin master --allow-unrelated-histories
mv README.md-save README.md
git commit -a
git push