Creating and Connecting a GitHub Repository

1. Create a Public GitHub Repository to store the source code of a project.

   1. Open and sign in to https://github.com/.

   2. In the Repositories tab, choose New to create a new repository.

      

   3. As the Repository name, enter RiskManagement. Don't tick any of the Initialize this repository with checkboxes.

   4. Choose Create repository.

      

   5. Copy the HTTPS URL of your newly created GitHub repository.

      

1. Create a Personal Access Token for GitHub.

   To create a personal access token, which you can use instead of a password, follow the steps described in Creating a personal access token².

You have created a new, empty GitHub repository. To be able to use it as a repository for your risk management application source code, you need to connect it with your CAP project. Until now, the only place where your project's source code resided was your personal dev space in SAP Business Application Studio.

1. Connect Your GitHub Repository with Your CAP Project.

   1. Return to your SAP Business Application Studio.

   2. Open a new terminal and navigate to your project root folder.

      

   3. Enter your email address and username. You can use the email address that you've used to register your GitHub account:

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      git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
      git config --global user.name "Your Name"

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      This configures the git command line tool locally in your Business Application Studio dev space. Now when you do file changes and commit them to a git history, git will use the configured name and email in these commits.

Since we cloned the starter template from GitHub, we already have a GitHub repository. Therefore, we do not have to create a new local one. All we have to do is to commit all our recent changes, link the new GitHub repository with our local one and to push the changes to GitHub.

1. Initialize the local git repository.

   1. Add all directories and files to the git staging area. Perform the command:

      Perform the command:git add.

   2. Create the first commit in your git repository.

      Perform the command:git commit -m "Push project content to GitHub"

   3. Add your copied GitHub repository URL from the previous part of the exercise as remote repository (without the angle brackets '<' and '>' ):

      Perform the command:git remote set-url origin <copied Git repository url.git>

      This tells your local git repository in the Business Application Studio dev space, that it has a remote counterpart on GitHub. The remote counterpart should act as the origin, thus it is the repository that you and your colleagues use as the central repository of your project.

   4. Push the commit with your project content to this GitHub repository:

      Perform the command:git push -u origin main

      This tells your local git to push the main branch to the remote repository. The -u option is used because the branch main did not yet exist on the remote repository.

   5. When prompted, enter your GitHub username and the personal access token, that you have created previously.

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      The prompt appears in the upper middle of the SAP Business Application Studio, not in the terminal tab that you have used until now.