How do I place my entire WordPress installation under git control?

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1. So the process is straight forward, but don’t forget to include a dump of the database to your repository.

   say you have the WordPress setup on /Users/yourHome/theSite, then:

   1. create or copy a backup of the site’s DB to /Users/yourHome/theSite/dbdump
   2. go to the site folder cd /Users/yourHome/theSite
   3. Stage everything git add .
   4. commit them git commit -m 'Your commit message
   5. set the repository’s remote to where you have to push git remote set-url origin https://example.com/remote/sample.git
   6. and finally push git push -u origin master

   please note I’m assuming you already have git repo on the site location. otherwise you need to initiate on in the location before the step 2. lest say as step 1.5 🙂 git init

   so after having the db back up ready, you have to:

   cp -rf the/db/backup/* /Users/yourHome/theSite/dbdump/
   cd /Users/yourHome/theSite/dbdump
   git init
   git add .
   git commit -m 'Your commit message'
   git remote set-url origin https://example.com/remote/sample.git
   git push -u origin master
   

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