Step 3: Push your changes to the server After the remote reference is configured, you can transfer your local files to the server with the git push command. git push -u origin master When this command ...

If that's the case, you'll need to use the git push --set-upstream command to link the new local branch to the remote repository. Alternatively, you could use a special Git setting to automatically ...

The second link above will fix that problem. Once the local repo is initialized and a remote is configured, you should be able to run git status, git diff, etc.

Now that you have your repository cloned to your local machine, add (or create) all the code you need for the repository into the new directory and issue the command: git add .