Github and local development for an open source project

Question

We are working on an open source project and going to publish it on Github. Currently we have a repo on our own server which the developers pull/push to.

Considering this, can we have a setup to do our development using our own repo. And then push to the repo on Github as a single commit once the changes ready to be released?

Or what the standard practice for this?

Answer 1

You could set a remote which points to GitHub.

git remote add github git@github.com:user/project.git

Then you could push to that when you want your changes to appear on the GitHub repo.

git push github

Answer 2

Make your code upto date with the code on your server. Then create a repository on Github and you will get a url for your repository. Then follow these steps

git remote add origin https://github.com/username/reponame.git
git push -u origin --all

It will push all your commits and all your branches on your machine to github. Refer this git hub link