World 4: Hello GitHub · Boss challenge

Publish the diary site

You will learn: to put your diary site on GitHub and keep it in sync with a teammate.

The problem

Your laptop~/diary

No remote yet

GitHubgithub.com/you/diary

Empty. No commits yet.

Your diary site is ready on your laptop. GitHub is still empty. Aisyah wants to help. Publish it, and stay in sync!

Watch

~/diary $ git log --onelinedef9487 (HEAD -> main) Add about pageea2c020 Add purple stylef6c78e5 Add home page2efd0f2 Add README

Five stages. Each one is a real terminal. Stuck? Try git status or git remote -v. Hints come after 2 tries.

Try it

Clear each stage to unlock the next.

Step 1 of 5: Connect to GitHub

Save https://github.com/you/diary.git as origin.

Hint

Read each stage’s note. Then git status tells you where you stand.

Check

A teammate pushed, so your push was rejected. What is the safe fix?

Try it

Optional: publish your real diary. Tick each step as you go.

Mission: your diary on GitHub

On GitHub, make an empty public repo called diary (no README, no licence).
In your diary folder, save it as origin. Use your own username.
git remote add origin https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/diary.git
Push main and set the upstream. Sign in if Git asks.
git push -u origin main
Open your repo on GitHub. Your commits are there!

0 of 4 steps done · Your ticks are saved.

Check

Let’s check with GitHub. Type your username.

Check it on GitHub

You did it!

You can now publish your project on GitHub and stay in sync.