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Adding existing source to remote git repo
If you've got local source code you want to add to a new remote new git repository without 'cloning' the remote first, do the following (I often do this - you create your remote empty repository in bitbucket/github, then push up your source)
1. Create the remote repository, and get the URL such as git://github.com/youruser/somename.git
2. If your local GIT repo is already set up, skips steps 2 and 3
3. Locally, at the root directory of your source, git init
4. Locally, add and commit what you want in your initial repo (for everything,
git add .
git commit -m 'initial commit comment')
5. to attach your remote repo with the name 'origin' (like cloning would do)
git remote add origin [URL From Step 1]
6. to push up your master branch (change master to something else for a different branch):
git push -p origin master
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