How do I connect a local folder to an existing github repo?

Question

I made a repo on my laptop. It has a project page on github.com.

I'm now working on my desktop computer. I manually copied over some files because I didn't think I would need every file from the repo (so I didn't clone the repo onto my desktop). How can I connect my desktop local folder with the existing repo so that I can push the files on my desktop to the repo (the desktop files are now the most recent versions of those files, since I stopped working from my laptop)

Answer 1

Adding an existing project to GitHub using the command line:

# Initialize the local directory as a Git repository.
git init

# Add files
git add .

# Commit your changes
git commit -m "First commit"

# Add remote origin
git remote add origin <Remote repository URL>
# <Remote repository URL> looks like: https://github.com/user/repo.git

# Verifies the new remote URL
git remote -v

# Push your changes
git push origin master

And 2nd way as @evolutionxbox suggest you:

• Clone git repo
• Copy and paste into it
• Push your change at origin

If in any case git reject your push you can use git push origin master --force

UPDATE (10-23-2020): Bear in mind that since October 1st, 2020, Github renamed the default repository from master to main https://github.com/github/renaming

Answer 2

1. Create a local repository in the temp-dir directory using: git clone temp-dir

2. Go into the temp-dir directory.

3. do a git branch -a

4. Checkout all the branches that you want to copy from origin using git checkout branch-name

You are done