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Steps — Stage 7: Connect to GitHub ​

This stage uses the GitHub website and a single Git command.

Prerequisites ​

Completed Stage 6. You have a GitHub account.

Steps ​

1. Create an empty repository on GitHub ​

  1. Go to github.com/new.

  2. Set Repository name to box-runner.

  3. Leave Description blank (or write anything you like).

  4. Choose Public. Private also works.

  5. Very important: leave all three of these unchecked:

    • Add a README file
    • Add .gitignore
    • Choose a license

    If you check any of them, GitHub creates a first commit on the remote and pushing becomes more complicated.

  6. Click Create repository.

2. Copy the repository URL ​

On the next page, GitHub shows a "Quick setup" block with a URL. Use the HTTPS URL — it looks like:

https://github.com/<your-username>/box-runner.git

Copy it.

3. Add the remote locally ​

In your terminal, inside the box-runner folder:

bash
git remote add origin https://github.com/<your-username>/box-runner.git

Replace <your-username> with your actual GitHub username. origin is just a name — it is the conventional name for "the main place I push to."

4. Verify the remote ​

bash
git remote -v

You should see two lines:

origin  https://github.com/<your-username>/box-runner.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/<your-username>/box-runner.git (push)

Fetch is for pulling changes down. Push is for uploading changes up. Both point at the same URL.

5. Confirm nothing is uploaded yet ​

Refresh the GitHub page for your repo. It still says it is empty, with instructions for how to "push an existing repository." That confirms that git remote add did not send anything — it only stored the address.

Verify ​

  • git remote -v prints the two origin lines.
  • The GitHub page for box-runner shows an empty repository.
  • Your local git log --oneline still shows four commits.