Git FAQs

Its easy to turn an already existing directory into its own repository.

1. cd into your directory.
2. Tell git to create a repository:
   • git init
3. Add all your files to the repository:
   • git add .
4. Check that you didn't add any undesired files:
   • git status
5. Remove any undesired files (if necessary):
   • git reset HEAD filename1 filename2
6. Commit the files:
   • git commit -m Initialize the repository with all the files

Follow this link if you want to create a remote bare Git repository for this repository to push to/pull from