How To Push Your Code To GitHub from your Local or Remote Server

If you have a project that is already running on a remote server or on your local machine and you would like to move your code to GitHub here are the steps.

1. Log into GitHub and create an empty git repository.
   Make sure you do not initialize the repository with a README, gitignore or license.
2. Copy the SSH repository link
3. On your server/local terminal type
   git remote add origin git@github.com/account-name/repository-name.git
4. Check that this was added successfully by typing:
   git remote -v
   This should have an output silimar to this:
   origin origin git@github.com/account-name/repository-name.git (fetch)
   origin origin git@github.com/account-name/repository-name.git (fetch)
5. Now run the following command
   git push origin main
   This should generate a few lines in the terminal containing
   Writing objects: 100%
6. Check your GitHub Repo to visually confirm that the repo was pushed