Commit and Push Cat.ly to the Git Repository

Let’s now push Cat.ly’s code to the empty Git repo. You can follow the steps below to commit and push using your terminal, or upload the project directory to the repo directly from the GitHub console.

Open your system’s terminal and execute the following commands in order:

1. If you don’t have Git installed in your system, follow these instructions to install it for your OS.

2. Navigate to your Cat.ly project’s root directory in the terminal and execute the following command:

This will initialize an empty Git repo in the local directory.

3. You must now add all the files in the project directory to the empty Git repo. Execute the following command:

This will add all the files in the client/ and the functions/ directory, along with catalyst.json, travis.yml and others in the root directory.

4. Commit the files to the repository by executing this command:

You can include a commit message if needed. Enter your Git credentials and sign in to GitHub, if prompted.

5. Point to the current branch of your repo in use before pushing the changes. If you are using the main branch, execute this command:

6. Specify the Git repository that you want to push the code to as follows:

Replace this with your Git repository.

7. Now push the code to the repo by executing this command:

Cat.ly’s code will now be available in your Git repo. Travis CI will fetch the updated code from it and will be triggered to execute the specifications configured in the YAML file automatically.