How to push a new folder (containing other folders and files) to an existing git repo?

Question

I cloned a repository to my desktop machine using git clone sshurl. As expected, this created a folder in my desktop.

Now, instead of a single file, I w

Answer 1

You need to git add my_project to stage your new folder. Then git add my_project/* to stage its contents. Then commit what you've staged using git commit and finally push your changes back to the source using git push origin master (I'm assuming you wish to push to the master branch).