How to clone, modify, add, and delete files in Git

Kedar Vijay Kulkarni (Red Hat)

Open the terminal and type the following command to clone your GitHub repo to your computer: git clone https://github.com//Demo.git Then, to see the list of files in the Demo directory, enter the command: ls Demo/ Your terminal should look like this: opensource.com Modify files Now that we have cloned the repo, let's modify the files and update them on GitHub. Add a new file to Git Now that we have modified a file and updated it on GitHub, let's create a new file, add it to Git, and upload it to GitHub. git add can be used when we are adding a new file to Git, modifying contents of an existing file and adding it to Git, or deleting a file from a Git repo. As soon as you commit this change and push it to GitHub, the file will be removed from the repo on GitHub as well. Do this by running: git commit -m Delete file.txt git push -u origin master Now your terminal looks like this: opensource.com And your GitHub looks like this: opensource.com Now you know how to clone, add, modify, and delete Git files from your repo.

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