Being a beginner in this field of technology, specifically software development, with time you get to learn just how important gh auth login, git init, git add . , git commit -m and git push actually are. I personally have experience with this just last week, i accidentally deleted a project i had been working on for a very long time. Lucky enough I was able to retrieve it from the trash and pushed it immediately. Even for the slightest edit, I ensure to add, commit and then push. Experience in this case was the best teacher