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Development Tools GitHub Basics Working By Yourself Push Your Project to GitHub

Posted by Karla Gonzalez
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Karla Gonzalez
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,602 Points

What does Alyson mean by, "typically the name of the local directory matches the remotes repository's name?

Where does Alyson get mkdir from?

1 Answer

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Hi these are two questions so I will split the answers up.

  1. What she is saying is that if your GitHub Project is called "TreehouseTest" then the folder on your local computer with the code in that repo is probably called "TreehouseTest" too. Usually people clone repos from GitHub and it makes the directory automatically.

  2. mkdir makes a directory (Think of MK as make and dir as directory) and is a very command command. If I run this in the terminal

mkdir test

It makes a folder called test.

Karla Gonzalez
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Karla Gonzalez
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,602 Points

Thank you! So is she making a directory to placing her ".py" files in, correct? My goal is to move my project from workspaces to the repo in Github.

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Yes exactly that.

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Here is a gif explaining it more

http://i.imgur.com/PQQ4t1A.gifv

Karla Gonzalez