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My First GitHub Mistake and How I'm Fixing It

DEV Community·Anushka Shinde·6 months ago
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Let's Talk About Something Nobody Admits

Everyone on GitHub looks like they have it together.

Clean repos. Perfect folder structures. Meaningful commit messages.

And then there's me who copied project files directly into a repo thinking "people will

figure it out."

They didn't. Neither did I.

What I Actually Did

I built my first full-stack project.Created a repo. Felt proud.

Then I selected all files from my project,dragged them into GitHub's upload page,and hit commit.

No folders. No structure. Just every file dumped flat like a pile of laundry that's technically clean but absolutely not organized.

Someone Noticed

A developer reviewed my project and pointed out the repo structure was broken.

Not in a mean way genuinely helpful feedback.But that moment of realizing your mistake in public?

Not great. 😅

What Happened Next : Procrastination

I got suggestions to fix it. GitHub Desktop. Terminal commands.…

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