<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hi Chris,<div><br></div><div>> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I need instructions on how to do steps B through E.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">You already have the clone on your workstation. You wouldn't have been able to push the README otherwise. You probably ran "git init" which actually *creates* the repository on your workstation, and then you ran "git push" which mirrors it back to GitHub. So you don't need to clone in that case; you already have a copy of the repo, since the workstation is where you created it.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>OK, but I created the README on the website (<a href="https://github.com/ad1054/Postcards">https://github.com/ad1054/Postcards</a>), not with a terminal command. When I then went through the instructions and tried to create the Hello-World README from the terminal, that's when I got the errors. When I click the "clone in desktop" button on the <a href="http://github.com">github.com</a> site, it takes me to the <a href="http://mac.github.com/">http://mac.github.com/</a> site where my only option is to download Git for Mac -- which I already downloaded.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Step (D) is "git commit"</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Step (E) is "git push"</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The book and other Git tutorials have more information.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">You are already really close -- you have the code on your local workstation, you have a GitHub repository already in existence, you have a local Git repository linked to that remote repository, so all you have to do is commit and push.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">The errors you mentioned yesterday were because your local Git repository had the wrong URL for the GitHub remote. That's why I asked you to check the output of "git remote -v". It should say your origin is "<a href="https://github.com/ad1054/Postcards">https://github.com/ad1054/Postcards</a>". If it says "Hello-World" that is wrong. To fix, try this:</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">git remote rm origin</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">git remote add origin <a href="https://github.com/ad1054/Postcards">https://github.com/ad1054/Postcards</a></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>This is the result of those commands in my terminal:</div><div><br></div></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><div>ChrisGAIAG:~ chris$ git remote rm origin</div></div></div><div><div><div>fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git</div></div></div><div><div><div>ChrisGAIAG:~ chris$ git remote add origin <a href="https://github.com/ad1054/Postcards">https://github.com/ad1054/Postcards</a></div></div></div><div><div><div>fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So do I need to cd to some place first?</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Or, as Johannes says: just reclone from your GitHub remote into a new directory, and then copy your files into there, and then commit and push using the GitHub for Mac GUI.</span></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Don't worry about "screwing anything up" because you can always just delete and recreate the repository. It's not like you're going to lose hundreds of hours of work, here.</font></div>
<div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Regards,</font></div><div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Curtis</font></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>The GitHub for Mac is a complete mystery right now. There is a long list of my java classes and resources, followed at the end with a link to my NetBeans project folder, so I see there is a link to my computer. I guess I am in fact close. I just need to figure out how to commit and push. </div><div><br></div><div>And of course, resolve the strange errors in my project that can't recognize the Swing components of my jFrames when I removed the APC_ class from my pom dependencies. Now when I attempt to run it on my computer, I get this error:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jdesktop/layout/GroupLayout$Group</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at A_Postcard.run(A_Postcard.java:25)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at A_Postcard.main(A_Postcard.java:35)</div><div>Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jdesktop.layout.GroupLayout$Group</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div> Also, when I was able to run my project, I get an error that it could not find the class "Versatile Wand" which is in my project's target>classes. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>