instructions

given: a github repo (denote its url as $repo)
a folder with files ($project)

back it up somewhere (there's 0% chance of anything happening but stranger things have happened)
> cd $project
> git init
> git remote add github "$repo"
add whatever files you want with `git add {}`, you could do something like `git add *`
> git commit -m "initial?"
> git push github master