Best ever Netdisk is ------ Github!

Saturday. November 02, 2019 - 1 min

Preface

Have you ever been troubled by having things uploaded and downloaded? There are many methods for you to transfer your files without USB. We have Baidu Netdisk, iCloud, Onedrive, etc. But some of them charge you extra money and others can not give you a prompt experience.

GitHub is an American company that provides hosting for software development version control using Git. What’s more, it can be serve as a free repository.

Here is the instruction!

The environment you need

1. VS Code
2. Github Desktop or your terminal

Steps

1. If you don’t have an account, then create a new github account

2. Add a new repository

   

3. Open your Visual Studio Code

   

   Run the following Code:

   git init
   git add README.md
   git commit -m "first commit"
   git remote add origin https://github.com/********.git
   git push -u origin master
   

   Every time you want to update your files:

   git commit -m "first commit"
   git remote add origin https://github.com/********.git
   git push -u origin master
   

4. Github Desktop can trace every changed your made

   Interactive way same as step 3

   

   

To sum up, it is a quick way to have your files stored online. It works well with codes and documents. But if you have a big digest for videos, it should not be your choice.

Yiting Li

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

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