John Blischak Add a remote repository.  about 9 years ago

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A local repository refers to code that is stored on the machine you are using, e.g. your laptop; whereas, a remote repository refers to the code that is hosted online.  Thus we have just created a remote repository.  Now we need to send the code on our computer to GitHub.  The key to this is the URL that GitHub assigns your newly created remote repository.  It will have the form \verb|https://github.com/username/reponame.git|, e.g. \verb|https://github.com/scientist123/thesis.git|.  We'll tell Git about our remote repository using the command \verb|git remote add|.  We use the alias name "origin" so that we don't have to type out the full URL in the future (this is the traditional name for a remote repository, but you could use another name if you liked).  \begin{lstlistings}  $ git remote add origin https://github.com/scientist123/thesis.git  \end{lstlistings}