Using git for the first time...

Question

I want to add a project which is located in my documents into a git repository, is this do-able? Thanks, I've never used git before

Answer 1

In theory yes:

cd yourRep
git init .
git add .
git commit -m "first commit"

You might want to add a .gitignore first in order to not add every file in your directory.
Some of them might not be relevant: see "Started using git recently … just noticed clones of my files with ' ~ ' appended in the end… why is this happening" for instance.

Answer 2

Certainly. Start by navigating to the root folder of your project. Once you are there execute git init to initialize a git repository in place. This repository is empty. You will have to add the necessary resources before you can commit them.

Start with git add -i. This is an interactive way of adding new resources to the repository. If you wish to add all files then execute git add . instead. It would be a good idea to create a .gitignore file, add the patterns of unnecessary files to it and then do git add .

Once you are done, execute git commit.

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