Github committing (push) gist

Question

I cannot understand this.

I have created a gist. Then I run

$ mkdir mygist
$ cd mygist
$ git init
$ git pull [email protected]:869085.git

Then I add files, change files and try to commit.

$ git add .
$ git commit -a -m "Better comments"

Then I do not know how to send it back to github and commit this git.

I just wanted to a comment to anyone trying to do this: You cannot add folders to a gist (Or least I couldn't when I tried). I couldn't push if I tried to add a folder to the gist which lead me to believe the answers below didn't work. But they do, just don't commit folders. — Rico Kahler
In case anyone comes across this whilst trying to push over https, check if you have 2FA enabled, then you need to generate a token to push: help.github.com/articles/… — sinewave

Mark Longair Mark Longair · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-14T13:58:53

It's probably easiest if you just start by cloning the gist, so that origin (a "remote" that refers to the original repository) is set up for you. Then you can just do git push origin master. For example:

git clone [email protected]:869085.git mygist
cd mygist
# Make your changes...
git add .
git commit -m "Better comments"
git push origin master

However, if you don't want to redo your changes, you can do:

cd mygist
git remote add origin [email protected]:869085.git
git fetch origin
# Push your changes, also setting the upstream for master:
git push -u origin master

Strictly speaking, the git fetch origin and -u argument to git push origin master are optional, but they will helpfully associate the upstream branch master in origin with your local branch master.

Github committing (push) gist

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