Mastering Git: A Beginner's Guide to Uploading Projects via VSCode to GitHub in 2024 (MacOS)

Setup Git and VSCode: Install Git and VSCode via Homebrew, and Sign up for a GitHub account.

Generate an SSH key: Ensure your device can access your GitHub account to push code to a remote directory.

• Start the ssh-agent in the background. eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

• open ~/.ssh/config

  If the file doesn't exist, create the file by touch ~/.ssh/config

• then, open ~/.ssh/config paste this in the config file:

• Host github.com AddKeysToAgent yes UseKeychain yes IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

• Secure your SSH key and save your passphrase:

  ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Adding generated SSH in your GitHub account: Use SSH key for authentication or commit signing, or both. Upload the key twice if needed.

• Copy the SSH public key pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

• Go to your GitHub account in the web browser.

  On the right-top corner,

  click profile picture > Settings > SSH and GPG keys

  Click 'Add new key',

  Title: MacSetup(put anything),

  Key Type: Authentication Key

  Key: Paste the clipboard

Set up Git Configurations: Set up your environment to upload code under your GitHub profile name.

• git config --global user.name "Your GitHub Username"

• git config --global user.email "your.email@example.com"

Create a Repository in GitHub, clone it into your local device and start:

• Copy the SSH version of your repository.

• Create a folder in local machine, open it in terminal,

• run git clone git@github.com:"YourGitHubUsername"/"YourRepo".git

• open that folder in VSCode and enjoy Pushing onto the remote.

Test Your Setup: Perform a test commit and push to confirm functionality. Check GitHub for successful commits.

• Basic Git Commands to test it: start by git init

• Create or modify any file, then run git commit -am "Your commit message"

• To push the code, git push

• Check the Web browser for commit history.

All The Best !!