Beginning Drupal 8

Chapter 16 ■ Using Git
Figure 16-1. Creating a new GitHub repository
To create a repository, enter a name in the “Repository name” field, enter a description in the
Description field, and in the “Add .gitignore” select list, choose Drupal.
A .gitignore file contains the names of files that you want Git to not track. In the case of Drupal, there
are local configuration files such as settings.php that are specific to the local environment where the site
is running. By ignoring settings.php you’ll save the steps of having to modify items such as the database
settings every time you pull from the master repository.
With the repository created on GitHub, the next step is to push your local repository up to GitHub. On
the GitHub page for your repository, you’ll see a clone URL listed in the right column of the page. Copy that
URL, as you are going to need it to push your local repository up to GitHub.
The first step in the process is to set up the GitHub connection on your local machine. From within the
root directory of your Drupal 8 site, use the following command to add a reference to your remote GitHub
repository, remembering to paste the clone URL in place of :
git remote add origin
Once you’ve added the remote repository, the next step is to pull down any changes that exist on
GitHub that don’t exist locally, before attempting to push your local repository to GitHub. If you do try to
push changes to GitHub and there are remote changes that don’t exist locally, Git will tell you that your
branch is behind and you have to first pull down the changes. Since we added a .gitignore file on GitHub,
the remote repository does have changes that our local copy of the site does not. So to fix that, use the
following:
git pull origin master
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