How to – add an existing project to GitHub through command line

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  • Create a new repository in GitHub and copy its URL.

https://github.com/new

  • Go to the project folder and run git init command to initialize the local directory as Git repository. Download Git for Windows

git init

  • Add the files to this new local repository

git add .


  • Commit the files to the local repository

    git commit -m “my first commit”

  • Specify the URL of the remote repository and set the new remote

git remote add origin URL

git remote -v

  • Push the changes to GitHub

git push origin master

Get all the details here

https://git-scm.com/videos

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

Hope it helps..