Configure git to existing project folder

Question

I have a project already underway where we are adopting Scrum as a development methodology.

Git is all set up to commit and clone, it’s working perfectly.

My question is, do you have a way to clone git to an existing folder with project files or do you have to create a new folder? For when I point to an existing folder it does not allow.

Answer 1

Unable to clone a Git repository to a folder that is not empty, this is not allowed.

If any development has been done outside the repository, do the following:

1. Clone the repository
2. Create a new Rach
3. Throw the code over this branch, if it’s in the same structure, otherwise you’ll need to copy over it individually
4. Resolve the conflicts
5. Do the commit
6. Do merge branch

Answer 2

Alternatively, you can start a repository or repository locally with git init.

After doing this, I recommend that you do the commits locally, even to avoid losing work case give some problem or you unintentionally execute some command with occasional side effect on the data.

Okay, after you commit, we’ll add the remote Github repository. You can follow the own tutorial from Github, or memorize some commands (explanation below command:

git remote add origin [email protected]:user/projeto-muito-legal-show.git
#              \___/   \____________________________________________/
#                |            endereço remoto do projeto no github
#         apelido do repositório remoto

git fetch origin

Ready, now you have a properly configured remote. After that, we can mix your branch place with the branch remote (if something has already been created). Or if the repository is still empty, just push.

To mix, it is usually used git merge origin/master (documentation) to mix with the branch master from the Github repository. But you can also try rewriting the history by all commits that you made as being children’s commits from the tip of branch remote, using the rebase (documentation).

git merge origin/master    # para fazer o merge
git rebase origin/master   # para fazer o rebase

In the third case, you still have nothing on the remote. So you just need to give a git push -u origin master (see more in this question, see the documentation).

Answer 3

if you already have a repository created and a local project and want to upload the changes to your repository and only use the git remote add orig command

git remote add origin "repository location" git push -u origin master

ex: git remote add origin https://[email protected]/user/project.git git push -u origin master