Online Git Repositories, enable you to store a copy of your Git repository online.

And, it can easily be shared among multiple computers and multiple users.

And, let's learn about two of the online Git repositories service providers.

GitHub and Bitbucket in a little bit more detail.

They'll look at how they can set up

our local Git repository to be mirrored in an online Git repository.

There are several online Git repository service providers.

Two of the most popular ones are, GitHub and Bitbucket.

I will go through in more detail about how you can set up your Git repository

that you prepared in the previous exercise,

to be mirrored on an online Git repository on Bitbucket.

To set up an online Git repository,

go to one of these online service providers and then sign up for an account.

So, here I have signed up into my Bitbucket account and I have my home page open here.

And so, I'm going to create a new repository online on my Bitbucket repository.

So, I just click on the create repository and then this would come up with some details.

Now, this varies with the repository service provider.

So, here I will specify the name of

the repository as git-test and then I'm going to mark this as a private repository.

For this course and all the remaining courses in this specialization.

I would strongly advise you to keep your repositories as private repositories.

Because, you don't want somebody else to be copying

the code that you might save in your online Git repository.

So please, make sure that you only use private repositories in this specialization.

So, I will sign up as

a Git private repository and then simply click on create repository.

And then, it will do some set up and then be ready for me.

OK? Now, what I need to do,

is to copy this particular URL for my repository.

So, you will see URL for the repository in the home page of that repository.

So, just copy that URL from the repository.

Because, we would need that in order to synchronize

our local Git repository with this repository.

So, I am going to copy that.

And since, I have already created my local Git repository.

I'm going to go in there and set that up to be mirrored in this online Git repository.

So, for that we need to use a couple of Git commands that enable us to do this.

Going to the command prompt,

in my Git repository folder I will type git remote add origin and

then paste the URL for

my Bit bucket repository that I've just created and hit the return.

So now, my local Git repositories remote origin is sent to the Bitbucket repository.

So now, I want to be able to push

the entire contents of my local Git repository to my online Git repository.

So, reviewing the commands for setting up the online Git repository.

The first one that we just did git remote add origin and the repository URL.

And so, this will add

the online repository as the remote repository for my local Git repository.

Once i do that,

then I need to push my contents to my online repository too.

For that, I do git push minus u origin master.

And, this command would push the local Git repository to the online repository.

So, let's type that at the command prompt.

So, once I type this at the command prompt and hit the return.

It's going to set up my Git repository.

Sometimes it may ask you to type in your credentials

including your password on your Bitbucket account,

so you may have to do that.

I had already done that previously.

So, that's why it didn't ask me again for the password.

But once I type that in, then,

contents of my local Git repository will be pushed to the server side.

So now, the data on my local Git repository is now matched on the server side.

So, let's go to Bitbucket to see the status of my online Git repository now.

Going to my Bitbucket and then reviewing the online Git repository.

You would see that there has been a branch,

the master branch that has been pushed to my online Git repository.

I can then examine the source by looking at

the source here and then you can see that I have the index.html

file which is exactly the same as what I have in

my local Git repository and examine the various commits also.

So, I can look at the state in the second commit and the first commit.

So, you can now see that all this information has been uploaded

to the online repository including the history of all the commits.

Then, going back there you can see more details about

all the commits that have been sent to the server side.

I can examine each of those commits in a bit more detail.

And, then going back to the source,

I can look at more details of the source like that there.

So, that has now set up my local Git repository to be mirrored in Bitbucket.

The procedure is pretty much similar even on GitHub.

So, let me set up an online GitHub repository.

Now, obviously you have to remember that your local repository can

only be matched to one online Git repository.

So, I will only go through setting up

the repository on GitHub and you will notice that the same kind of

commands would be required if you want to set up

your local repository to be re-mirrored on a repository on GitHub.

So, on GitHub, if you log into

your account you would see something like this in your home page.

You can go to the right hand side where there is a plus sign and then

click on that to create a new repository or,

just click on this button here to say new repository.

And then, when that comes up I can simply say git-test.

And then, again as a reminder,

please make that a private repository.

Most of these providers allow you to now store private repositories online.

So, why make them public unless you really want to share it with other people?

So, I would strongly urge you to keep your repositories private for the moment unless,

if you're working with a team.

I should remind you that at this moment,

GitHub supports private repositories only for

those subscribers who pay for their GitHub account.

So, it is not available for subscribers who are using their free account.

So, simply click on private and then create repository.

And then, that will create a repository and then you would see

that GitHub also gives me a bunch of commands

here on how to set up

the repository so for creating a new repository on the command line.

The commands that we actually had done earlier or to push

an existing repository the same two kinds of commands that have to be issued.

So, that basically sets up

your GitHub repository to mirror your local repository.

So, since I have already linked my repository to Bitbucket,

I'm not going to use my GitHub repository for the purpose.

So, as you notice the procedure is pretty much similar on either one of them.

Give and take a few differences in the way

the information is rendered on the screen in

the user interface and little bit of changes.

More or less, they are similar in the way you're going to make use of them,

in terms of mirroring your local Git repository to the online repository here.

So, about this, suppose somebody gives you a Git repository,

can you make a copy of that onto your local one?

So, this is where we use another Git command called git clone.

So now, here you see that I have this git-test repository.

So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to this repository and then copy this URL.

And then, I'll show you how I can create a copy of

the Git repository or clone this online repository into my local computer.

So, let's pretend that I am on a different computer.

And then, we'll go to our command line and

then create another repository with that same name.

Going to my command line,

am just going to move up into my-- and you'll see that I have my git-test folder there.

So, I'm going to create another temporary folder here.

Just to show you that,

I can clone an online Git repository.

So, in my temporary folder you'll see that it is empty.

So, to review the command it says git clone and the repositories URL.

So, let's apply this command and then clone the online Git repository.

Pretending that we are on another computer.

So, I'm going to say git clone and

then paste the URL of my Bitbucket repository here.

And then, you would see that,

that repository will now get cloned into a local folder with the same name git-test.

So now, if I do a listing of the directory.

You can see that the git-test folder has been created.

So, let's go to the git-test folder and then you will see

that this is an exact copy of the folder structure that we had created earlier.

So, this is how you can clone an online Git repository.

So, all you need to do is to obtain the URL of the Git repository.

And then, simply use git clone to get a copy of that onto your local computer.

With this, we complete this exercise on using online Git repositories.

So did you finally Git it?

Exercise (Video): Online Git Repositories

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