Re: Newbie to git

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 28, 2009, 02:18 UTC
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<mysql.jorge@decimal.pt> writes:

> Hi Andreas,

If you are addressing Andreas, why does your mail have:

    To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>

and no other addressee???

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> not i have:
> /home/apache/gitprojects/mydir.git
>
> created with: git init --base mydir.git
>
> Now, inside here, what should i do to create my projects:
>
> mkdir myproject1
> cd myproject1
> git init
> touch a.txt
> git add .
> git commit -m "1st commit"
>
> am i correct or not really?

You created "myproject1" somewhere you started "mkdir" in (perhaps in $HOME?) [*1*] and that project tracks a single file "a.txt"; you are correct if that was what you wanted to do.

The new repository "myproject1" doesn't have any relation to the bare repository at /home/apache/gitprojects/mydir.git/ you created earlier. The next steps I recommend new people are:

 (1) push into the public repository, by doing:

     cd myproject1
     git push /home/apache/gitprojects/mydir.git/ master

 (2) make sure push went correctly by trying to clone from there:

     cd ..
     mv myproject1 myproject1.old
     git clone /home/apache/gitprojects/mydir.git/ myproject1

 (3) check if the clone is what you expect

     diff myproject1.old/a.txt myproject1/a.txt

 (4) once satisfied, remove the old one

     rm -fr myproject1.old

And keep working in the myproject1 repository from there on.

[Footnote]

*1* If you started that "mkdir" somewhere else you may want to remove it and redo that step, especially if you did so inside that bare repository you created earlier, i.e. /home/apache/gitprojects/mydir.git directory. You don't want to have it there.