Publishing our plugin

We are going to publish our plugin to Package Control, so everyone can download and install it. To publish our plugin, we'll need to have git installed on our system and a GitHub account. Let's first start by creating a repository for our plugin and committing all files to it by running the following commands in the plugin folder:

git init
git add .
git commit –m "Initial Commit"

Create a new public repository in GitHub by going to http://github.com/new and pushing our local repository there by running:

git remote add origin https://github.com/USERNAME/REPO-NAME.git
git push -u origin master

In the preceding code, USERNAME is your username and REPO-NAME is the repository name you just created. GitHub will prompt you for the username and password.

Tip

You can also add a README.md file to your repository.

Now for the tricky part: we'll need to select Fork on the https://github.com/wbond/package_control_channel page, as shown in the following screenshot:

After forking, we...