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 3. Type the following commands into terminal to "push" the TTN files up to resin.io:
    ```
    git add .
-   git -m "first upload of ttn files to resin"
+   git commit -m "first upload of ttn files to resin"
    git push resin master
    ```
 5. What you'll now see happening in terminal is that this "git push" does an incredible amount of work: