Creating & Programming Robots

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We want to create a git project from an existing code in the folder called existing_dir. The local git is created with init and then we add all the files from existing_dir in the git repository and make the first commit :

cd existing_dir
git init
git add .     
git commit -m 'message'

Fill 'message' with an appropriate message , e.g. 'my first commit'

If you just want to add selected files, there are several ways to do it. You can create a .gitignore file with all the files and folders you don't want to manage with git. Another way is to add only to git some selected files, for example the Python files :

cd existing_dir
git init
git add *.py    
git commit -m 'message'

We can now push it to the web on your GitLab account. Here user should be replaced by your account name and existing_dir by the project name.

git push --set-upstream https://gitlab.com/user/existing_dir.git master

For ENSTA Bretagne's GitLab, the user is defined with the 6+2 id code (ex tournetr for Tryphon Tournesol). You will have to type the id and the password to complete the push.

After that, you can check that the project has correctly been created on GitLab by typing the URL (https://gitlab.com/user/existing_dir.git) in a wEB browser :