One of the things that gets me really frustrated while trying to learn something new and wanting to save my practice code in Github so as to:
- Not lose them and have them for reference whenever I need it.
- So as to be able to access them anytime I needed them
is that I have to mess around with Github + Egit + Eclipse for much longer than actually learning/writing something new.
In any case, here's a common mistake that I've been doing and see lot of my peers do when starting to work with Git and Git hub and that is when wanting to associate a remote Github repository with a local git repository created using
- Egit plugin for eclipse
- Using the git init command from the terminal
it is incorrect to execute the git remote add command from any other place other than the local git repo directory [the one containing .git folder]
Here's the steps that I normally take:
- Create a remote Github repository such as Messing-With-Python
- Create a local git repository on my computer FirstPythonProject
- Execute the following in the terminal from the FirstPythonProject [This directory should have a .git hidden directory]
git remote add origin https://github.com/<username>/Messing-With-Python.git
