These are the commands to commit and push to a remote in GitHub: git add . git commit -m "Comment to the commit" git push origin master If after the commit you also want to create a tag: git tag "MyTagName" git push origin "MyTagName"

When cloning Git repositories to your Windows machine, Git offers the possiblity to automatically convert new-lines in the Windows format. To enable this, you must run from the command line the following command: git config --global core.autocrlf true Reference: Configuring Git to handle line endings

Steps to follow in case you want to reset (i.e. empty) the content of a GitHub repository, without deleting the full repository itself: in case you don't already have it, create a SSH key and add it to your GitHub profile: Generating a new SSH key and adding it