I found a fantastic answer here: As you probably know, git is a distributed version control system. Most operations are done locally. To communicate with the outside world, git uses what are called remotes. These are repositories other than the one on your local disk which you can push your changes into (so that other … Read more
TL;DR: you probably wanted git worktree add ../north north First, a reminder (or information for others coming across this question): git worktree add wants to create a new work-tree and, at the same time, make sure that this new work-tree is using a different branch name from every other work-tree. This is because, while each … Read more
Generate SSH key using ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C “your email”. Copy the output of cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to your clipboard Paste the above-copied output to the form at https://github.com/settings/ssh/new Then go ahead to retry the operation that generated the initial fatal error. Update: If you are still facing “ssh: connect to host github.com port … Read more
This is what you’re looking for: ignoring doesn’t remove a file. I suggest you read that page, but here’s the specific command to use: git filter-branch –index-filter \ ‘git rm -r –cached –ignore-unmatch <file/dir>’ HEAD Also, to remove all the deleted files from caches git creates, use: rm -rf .git/refs/original/ && \ git reflog expire … Read more
Assuming your remote is called origin, run git remote set-url origin https://… git remote set-url –push origin https://… You can view the configured remotes with git remote -v, which should now show your updated URLs. See the documentation for git-remote for more details.
When you clone a repo, it automatically sets up a remote called origin which refers to the repo that you have cloned. This is now pointing to the upstream Rails project, but what you need is to create your own fork that you can push to, and then set up a remote that points there … Read more
git remote rm origin should work.
git remote add just creates an entry in your git config that specifies a name for a particular URL. You must have an existing git repo to use this. git clone creates a new git repository by copying an existing one located at the URI you specify.
Open your Terminal, access to this folder and write: git init git add . git commit -m “my commit” git remote set-url origin git@github.com:username/repo.git git push origin master
As it has already been mentioned in che’s answer about adding the remote part, which I believe you are still missing. Regarding your edit for adding remote on your local USB drive. First of all you must have a ‘bare repository’ if you want your repository to be a shared repository i.e. to be able … Read more