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This article outlines the steps to link your local repository to a GitHub repository. It is always recommended to link your local repository to an empty GitHub repository.

After all, no one wants to merge two different repositories into one. So, how do you link your local repository to your GitHub repository?

Linking to an existing GitHub repository

Linking to a GitHub repository is a relatively simple process. You will need to create a personal GitHub account.

For simpler context, we will use an example.

In this example, we will access our GitHub account and create a new empty repository called Sample-Repo. Make sure you do not include a README.md file or any other files that GitHub suggests.

If you don't know how to create a repository on GitHub, follow these steps.

1. Go to your GitHub account and go to the Repositories tab.
2. Click New to create a new repository. Name your repository and click Create Repository.

Once that is done, we can now open Git Bash. We will navigate to the local repository that we want to link with our GitHub repository.

For the sake of order, we will also name our local repository Sample-Repo.

We need to copy the GitHub URL of the Sample-Repo to link the two. In our case, we will use HTTPS authentication.

To get the link, go to the repository you created on GitHub, go to Code and copy the link under HTTPS.

We will run git remote addthe command as shown below.

$ git remote add origin https://github.com/Wachira11ke/Sample-Repo.git

This should set up a fetch and pull URL for our local repository. We can git remote -vvcheck this using the command as shown below.

$ git remote -vv

The output is as follows:

The last step involves pushing to the remote repository. We can use the command with -u togit push push our master branch to the remote and track it.

We will run the command as shown in the following image.

```bash $ git push -u origin master `` The output is as follows:

The above output shows that Git has set up our local master branch to track the remote master branch. At this point, we have successfully linked our local repository with the existing GitHub repository.

In short, you can git remote add origin <URL>link your local repository to your GitHub repository using . Always use an empty GitHub repository to avoid cluttering your files.

Linking to an existing GitHub repository with other files may result in errors.