I downloaded the latest code of a repositiry as zip but now I want to be able to work with branches too.
Is there anyway I can use the folder as a git repository just l
It is something like you created a local repo in your m/c and then want to push it to github
The github repo for your project has already been created on github.
Either you have created it or has been added as one of the collaborators in your case for downloaded repository code
When you create a project
$ rails new app1 --skip-active-record --skip-bundle
and want this to be associated to the repo
cd to the project folder,
$ cd app1
and then execute $git init $ git remote add origin git@github.com:analytics/app1.git
then do
$git pull origin master
$git push
So, the local repo has been pushed to the remote github repo
You have to first initialize the folder as a GIT repo and then add the remote. For example:
cd folder
git init .
git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git
And then resync with git pull.
You can paste git config file and set remote URL properly. You can start pull push. happy coding
I had a similar issue.
TL;DR short version relevant commands:
git init
git remote add origin git@github.com:somecompany/some-repo.git
git add .
git pull origin master
Full story: I was having trouble cloning the repo so I eventually downloaded and expanded the zip instead. I did git init
after which git status
showed:
On branch master
No commits yet
Untracked files:
(use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
.gitignore
.rspec
.ruby-version
...(all the directories of the project)...
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
Then I added the origin with
git remote add origin git@github.com:somecompany/some-repo.git
I did a git fetch
which got the remote's branches info.
When I did git pull origin master
it said:
From github.com:somecompany/some-repo
* branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
.gitignore
.rspec
.ruby-version
...(all the files of the project)...
Please move or remove them before you merge.
Aborting
I tried several things that didn't help, finally I did:
git add .
the files were all staged now but I did NOT make a commit. Instead I did:
git pull origin master
which output:
From github.com:somecompany/some-repo
* branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
Now when I did git status
it reported:
On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean
And I was good to go.