Clone repository into GitHub

Question

I have been using git locally for while a now and have a private repository with complete change history etc. I now want to share this on GitHub, so I need to clone from my

Answer 1

You do this by pushing to remote repo on GitHub. You should get the whole history and everything.

Answer 2

You simply want to create a new repository on your account on GitHub. Assuming your account name is CraigH, and you call you new repository NewRepo (imaginative, I know), you'd simply (assuming you have GitHub keys set up on your system properly):

1. Add a remote to your local repository
   • git remote add origin git@github.com:CraigH/NewRepo.git
2. Push out your current history to GitHub
   • git push --set-upstream origin master

And from that point, your history in the master branch are in GitHub's master branch.

Answer 3

You don't need to "clone onto GitHub". You just have to create a repository on GitHub and push your changes there:

$ cd your_local_repo
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:USERNAME/REPO_NAME.git
$ git push origin master