How do I do an initial push to a remote repository with Git?

Question

I\'ve read through countless tutorials and I keep coming up short. Here\'s what I\'ve got:

-- I\'m running RubyMine on my Windows desktop
-- I\'ve installed Gi

Answer 1

@Josh Lindsey already answered perfectly fine. But I want to add some information since I often use ssh.

Therefore just change:

git remote add origin youruser@yourserver.com:/path/to/my_project.git

to:

git remote add origin ssh://youruser@yourserver.com/path/to/my_project

Note that the colon between domain and path isn't there anymore.