Need to push EXISTING project to GitHub

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Git and GitHub seems deceptively easy…

I’ve tried several times to read “very clear” blogs about “how to master” Git and GitHub. It’s been frustrating.

I finally decided to just learn how to sync up projects that I had created on my PC with GitHub (so I could then import to CodeSandBox).

I repeatedly ran into this error:
![rejected] master -> master (non-fast-forward)

So after reading some more very confusing and very intimidating StackOverflows and blogs, I tried again and it worked. After recovering from the shock, I looked back through my cmd prompt to see what went right.

This is the sequence of events, starting with the first time I errored out. Can someone please review and let me know what I did right and what I dd wrong so I can learn from this??

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For now, all I want to master is how to sync up an EXISTING project (from PC) with GitHub.

Thank you so much.

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Also, I wanted to test out the process of making and uploading changes, so…

  1. I updated app.js file to have an extra <p>This is a test</p>
  2. Checked local host and it showed up as expected.
  3. Then I ran git status in cmd-prompt. I expected to see app.js listed since I edited it.
  4. But I got this message:
On branch vidly routing
nothing to commit, working tree clean

Can someone help me understand what is going on?

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OK…I had definitely saved it (b/c I saw the change in http://localhost:3000/) but that did trigger another thought. I have 2 projects with the same name. VERY bad I know. Cleaned it all up and now changed files are recognized in Git. Thanks!!