Create The Files & Push them to Git Hub Repository — Git Assignment 1

Visal Tyagi

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9 min readMay 14, 2024

Tasks to Be Performed:

1. Based on what you have learned in the class, do the following steps:

a. Create a new folder

b. Put the following files in the folder

● Code.txt

● Log.txt

● Output.txt

c. Stage the Code.txt and Output.txt files

d. Commit them

e. And finally push them to GitHub

2. Please share the commands for the above points.

For copying the commands or viewing the files, check the given Git Hub Repository:

GitHub - visaltyagi/Git-Assignment-1: Git Hub Assignment 1 (Basic Assignment)

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Problem (1) Solution: Based on what you have learnt in the class, do the following steps:

a. Create a new folder

b. Put the following files in the folder

● Code.txt

● Log.txt

● Output.txt

A. Create a New Folder (assignment1)

Step 1: Go to the “Services” section & search “EC2” here. Put Cursor over “EC2” & click on “Instances”.

Step 2: Click on “Launch Instances”.

Step 3: Choose “Name” as “Git” in the “Name and tags” section.

Step 4: Choose “AMI” as “Ubuntu” & “AMI Version” as “Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type.

Step 5: Choose “Instance type” as “t2.micro”.

Step 6: Choose “Key pair (login)” as “Demo”.

Step 7: In “Network Settings”, choose the following options here:

Firewall (security groups): — Select existing security group

Common security groups: — launch-wizard-9 sg-00ebfbf131243e93d

Step 8: Click on “Launch Instance”.

Step 9: The instance will be successfully launched. Click on “Hyperlink (i-0bc525cdc20d5267d)”.

Step 10: The instance will be in the “Running State”.

Step 11: Select the “Instance (Git)” & click on “Connect”.

Step 12: Again, click on “Connect”.

Step 13: The instance will be successfully connected. Run the below-given update command to update the machine.

sudo apt-get update

Step 14: The update will be successfully done.

Step 15: Create a new folder named “assignment1” using the below-given command:

mkdir assignment1
ls

A folder will be successfully created named “assignment1”.

Do “ls” here & “assignment1” folder will be saved.

Step 16: To enter the “assignment1” folder, type the below-given command:

cd assignment1

You will be successfully landed inside the “assignment1” folder.

b. Put the following files in the folder

● Code.txt

● Log.txt

● Output.txt

Step 1: Use the below-given command to create these files:

touch Code.txt Log.txt Output.txt
ls

Do “ls” here & all the files will be successfully shown here.

c. Stage the Code.txt and Output.txt files

Step 1: Initialize the Git using the below-given command:

git init

Step 2: Now, stage both the files Code.txt & Output.txt using the below-given command:

git add Code.txt Output.txt

Step 3: To check which file is staged or not, use the below-given command:

git status

D. Commit them

Step 1: Now, we will commit both files using the below-given command:

git commit –m "Commit both Code.txt and Output.txt files"

Both files will be successfully committed.

E. And finally push them to GitHub

Step 1: First, type “github.com” in the “browser search address bar”.

Click on “Sign in” here.

Step 2: Sign in with your “email address” & “password” here.

Step 3: Click on “New” in “Top Repositories”.

Step 4: Choose the following options during the “Git Hub Repository Creation”.

Repository name: Git-Assignment-1

Description: Git Hub Assignment 1 (Basic Assignment)

Remain “Public” option enabled.

**Put the Repository Name and Description Here**

Choose “Add a README file” in “Initialize the repository with”.

Click on “Create repository”.

**Add a README File & Create Repository**

Step 5: The Repository named “Git-Assignment-1” has been successfully created.

Step 6: Now, go to the “Git” machine & use the below-given command to add “Repository URL”:

git remote add Git-Assignment-1 https://github.com/visaltyagi/Git-Assignment-1.git

The repository (Git-Assignment-1) will be successfully added.

Step 7: To check whether the GitHub Repository will be added or not, use the below-given command:

git remote –v

**Repository Successfully Added on Local**

It will show the repository URL here.

Step 8: Run the below-given command to check how many branches are in the “Git hub repository”.

git branch

Step 9: Go to “Git Hub Profile” & click on “Settings” here to create the access token. The access token will be used when you push the branch to the “Git Hub Repository”.

Step 10: Click on “Developer Settings” at the end.

Step 11: Click on “Personal Access tokens > Tokens (classic)”.

Step 12: Click on “Generate new token > Generate new token (classic)”.

Step 13: Choose “Note” as “Access Token”. While, in “Select scopes”, choose the “repo” option.

Step 14: Click on “Generate token”.

Step 15: The token will be successfully generated. Please copy & paste this token into a separate notepad & save it. Otherwise, every time you have to generate a new token.

Copy the token by clicking on the icon.

Step 16: Go to the “Git” machine. Put this URL to push the branch in the “Git-Assignment-1” repository.

URL: git push Git-Assignment-1 master

Username: visaltyagi12

Password: Personal Access Token here

Press “enter” from the keyboard & “master” repo will be successfully pushed to the “Git-Assignment-1” repository.

Step 17: Go to “Github Repository: Git-Assignment-1” & refresh the browser.

A message will be shown as “master has recent pushes (12 minutes ago)”.

**Master Successfully Pushed With Both Files**

Also, both files have been shown here.

It means both files have been successfully pushed to the “Git-Assignment-1” repository.

Step 18: In the “Github repository”, “main” is a default file, which can’t be deleted due to the “default” branch.

So, we will now make the “master” branch our “default” branch.

Click on “Settings”.

Step 19: Click on the “Arrow” sign.

Click on Arrow Sign — **Click on the Arrow Sign**

Step 20: Choose “master” here & click on “update”.

Step 21: Click on “I understand, update the default branch”.

Step 22: Now, “master” has been a “default” branch which can’t be deleted until “default” status.

Step 23: Click on “code”.

Step 24: Click on “2 Branches”.

Step 25: Click on the “delete” option.

Step 26: The “main” branch will be successfully deleted & now “master” as a default branch will be shown.

main branch deleted successfully — **the main branch was deleted successfully**

2. Please share the commands for the above points.

Step 1: Run the below-given command to get all the commands used in this assignment:

git history

Copy the commands & paste here:

· sudo apt-get update
· mkdir assignment1
· ls
· clear
· ls
· cd assignment1
· touch Code.txt Log.txt Output.txt
· ls
· git init
· git add Code.txt Output.txt
· git status
· git commit -m "Commit both Code.txt and Output.txt files"
· git remote add Git-Assignment-1 https://github.com/visaltyagi/Git-Assignment-1.git
· git init
· ls
· git init
· git remote add Git-Assignment-1 https://github.com/visaltyagi/Git-Assignment-1.git
· ls
· git remote -v
· cd assignment1
· ls
· git branch
· cd assignment1
· git push Git-Assignment-1 master