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Author: Alkaison

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+title: Working with GitHub 
+author: alkaison
+date: 2023-02-11 16:00:00 +0530
+categories: [Blogging, Git & GitHub]
+tags: [git, github, github repository, local and remote files]
+---
+
+### New GitHub Account
+
+- Create a [GitHub](https://github.com "GitHub Website")  account to create your remote repositories. Now, create a new repo where we will be uploading our files from local repo. 
+
+![Github New Remote Repository](/assets/img/github-new.png)
+
+- Note - Local repository (repo.) means the repo. which is on our system whereas, remote repo. means the one which is on other remote system/server, for eg. - GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc. 
+
+### Push local repo to GitHub 
+
+- Copy the url or the link of the repo that we just created.
+
+- Paste the copied url in the below git command. 
+
+
+```terminal
+git remote add origin <paste copied URL here>
+```
+
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+{: .prompt-warning }
+
+### Add Remote Destinations 
+
+- It specifies that we are adding a remote repository, with the specified URL, as an origin to our local Git repo.
+
+- Finally, pushing our master branch to the origin URL (remote repo) and set it as the default remote branch.
+
+```terminal
+git push --set-upstream origin master
+```
+
+- Go back into GitHub and see that the repository has been updated. 
+
+### Pushing local repo to GitHub 
+
+- First commit all the changes. Then push all the changes to our remote origin i.e. remote repo on github.
+
+```terminal
+git push origin
+```
+
+### Pull local repo from GitHub 
+
+- Git pull is used to pull all changes from a remote repository into the branch we are working on. It is a combination of fetch and merge. Use it to update your local Git.
+
+```terminal
+git pull origin
+```
+
+### Pull Branch from GitHub 
+
+- First, check which branches we have and where are we working at the moment by using this command. 
+
+```terminal
+git branch
+```
+
+- Since we do not have the new branch on out local Git which is to be pulled from the Github. So, to see all local and remote branches, use -
+
+```terminal
+git branch -a
+```
+
+#### For viewing only remote branches 
+
+```terminal
+git branch -r
+```
+
+- Now, the new branch is seen in the console but it is not available on 
+our local repo. So, let’s check it out using 
+
+```terminal
+git checkout <branch name>
+```
+
+- Now run the below command to pull that branch on our local repo. 
+
+```terminal
+git pull
+```
+
+- We can now check the available branches using the command.
+
+```terminal
+git branch
+```
+
+### Push branch to GitHub 
+
+- First, let’s create a new local branch which we will be pushing to 
+Github. Enter the command as 
+
+```terminal
+git checkout -b <branch name>
+```
+- You can check the status of the files in this current branch using 
+
+```terminal
+git status
+```
+
+- Commit all the uncommitted changes for all the files in this branch using 
+
+```terminal
+git commit -a -m “<Message>”
+```
+
+- Now push this branch from our local repo to Github using 
+
+```terminal
+git push origin <branch name>
+```
+
+### Git Clone from GitHub 
+
+- We can clone a forked repo from Github on our local repo. A clone is a full copy of a repository, including all logging and versions offiles. Move back to the original repository, and click the green "Code" button to get the URL to clone. Copy the URL.
+
+- Now in the git bash, enter the following command to clone the copied repo onto your local machine
+
+```terminal
+git clone <copied URL>
+```
+
+- To specify a specific folder to clone to, add the name of the folder after the repository URL, like this 
+
+```terminal
+git clone <copied URL> <folder Name>
+```