将下载的git存储库推送到分支机构主服务器

Question

I downloaded a project of mine at GitHub (downloaded zip, not git clone ).

I made some changes and now I want to commit and push it to origin master, how should I proceed? Always I do this, I find some workaround to push, so I'd like to know the correct way.

I guess I should do

git init
git add .
git commit -m "some message"
git remote add origin [repository_link]
git pull -u origin master
git push -u origin master

but I'm not sure.

Answer 1

If you want to push back to a repository, you should clone it instead of downloading it.

That being said, I understand the issue here is that you downloaded it and didn't realize that when you made the changes.

I would suggest to clone the project into a different folder. Then you can replace all files from the old downloaded folder to the new cloned folder.

Do a git status and git diff to make sure everything looks good.

Now you can git push origin master