Problem importing project into git

I am new to web development. I just managed to develop an application using cakephp on shared hosting. I am trying to import the project into git. I am new to git. I have all php files. I read through the documentation on importing to git. I have successfully installed git on the local machine. And I am stuck, it says

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Assume you have a tarball project.tar.gz with your initial work

I assume it is a zipped folder of the project. I have not used svn before. I have all the files in folders. Should I just zip the folders and import it.

If you do not have a project.tar.gz archive, simply disregard it.

Open a command prompt in the folder holding your project files. Then type

git init
git add *
git commit -m 'initial project version'

This will (line 1) initialize a Git repository in your project folder, (line 2) add/track/stage any files in the folder hierarchy and then (line 3) commit them to the repository as the initial checkin.

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All you need to do is

• unzip
• go the the root of your project directory once unzipped.
• git init .
• git add -A
• git commit -m "first import"

Before that first import though, you might want to add some of your files to a .gitignore file in order to not include them in the Git repository and leave them "private" (local to your view only).

A "tarball" is a directory tree that has been tarred , then gzipped.

I think you may be overthinking this a bit though. If you already have it all sitting in directories the way you want it, then it would probably be easier to just do a git add. Perhaps make a copy of the tree and do it with that, just to prevent accidents.