GitHub Related

[Nano Adam]

Currently I use Google Drive to sync the files that I use with Web Development, I use two-three different devices during the day. I am looking for the Git command that would let me achieve similar results. 

 

Thanks

[wasab]

cd <directory_path> 

git init

git remote add origin <your github repo address>

git commit -m <commit message>

git push -u origin master 

 

create a separate branch if you have teammates who each work on their own stuff. 

[Nano Adam]

How can I live sync it? 

[WiiManic]

Git has no concept of "live sync" since everything is done in commits. Ie, like save games.

 

Save game would be a little useless if it saved every single second, just as having a commit for every 1 character change in code would be fairly useless.

Instead the Git workflow is more like "Okay, I've done part 1 of that thing I want to do, I'll commit now".

 

So you add a commit with some title like "Started implementation of feature 1 by adding X." and then push that up to your Git provider of choice (GitHub/GitLab/etc).

Your teammates then see the progress of you adding small logical chunks of the feature, rather than every tiny change where you accidentally typed string as strign and so on.

So you synchronise when you feel it is necessary with a commit then push, rather than all the time constantly.

 

It can take a bit of getting used to, but it becomes very easy very quickly.
Plus live sync would struggle or fail if you and someone else edited line 50 of the same file at the same time, whereas Git has plenty of built in ways of dealing with conflicts etc.

[Nano Adam]

In other words, my ultimate goal is that I create a new project on my laptop, then push/commit the changes to Github, then go on my desktop, then be able to open that exact project from github on Visual Studio Code, then work on it and commit then go back to my laptop and pickup where the desktop left off.

 

Basically, how would my desktop get the Github files that I worked on in my laptop.

 

 

[vorticalbox]

10 hours ago, wasab said:

cd <directory_path> 

git init

git remote add origin <your github repo address>

git commit -m <commit message>

git push -u origin master 

 

create a separate branch if you have teammates who each work on their own stuff. 

You should do this anyway.

[vorticalbox]

5 hours ago, ammar_code said:

In other words, my ultimate goal is that I create a new project on my laptop, then push/commit the changes to Github, then go on my desktop, then be able to open that exact project from github on Visual Studio Code, then work on it and commit then go back to my laptop and pickup where the desktop left off.

 

Basically, how would my desktop get the Github files that I worked on in my laptop.

 

 

Git pull

[Dat Guy]

GitHub is not a VCS. The underlying git is a VCS. Don't use them as synonyms.