Adding a remote to your project

Create a new gitlab project on your personal gitlab site and follow the gitlab instructions.
Note: make sure that the remote starts with git@ and not https if you want to use a ssh key.
You can see the https and ssh url when clicking on the clone button.

• In order to verify that your remote was successfully added to your local project you can type:

git remote -v

on your terminal (when you are somewhere inside you git project folder).

• The -u option when doing the initial push in the gitlab instructions sets the upstream. This means that you do not always need to type git push <remote_name> <branch> but that it is enough to type git push or pull respectively.
  In other words you set a default remote and branch.