How do I add a remote Git repository to an Ubuntu Server?
I have created a Git repository on my Desktop machine (Windows 7) with:
git init
git add <all my files>
git commit -m "added my files"
Now I have installed a new Ubuntu Server 10.10 on a machine on my LAN and installed OpenSSH. My home directory is /home/jonas and I created a directory ~/code/ to contain my projects. I can log in to the Ubuntu Server from Windows 7 with Putty.
I installed Git on the server with sudo apt-get install git
Adding a remote repository
Now I want to add my Git repository on my Desktop to the Server. I tried to follow the instructions from Pragmatic Version Control Using Git.
From my Desktop I run these commands:
git remote add origin [email protected]/home/jonas/code/myproject.git
git push origin master
But I got this error message:
fatal: '[email protected]/home/jonas/code/myproject.git' does not appear to be
a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
What is the problem? How do I create the remote repository?
As PerfectlyNormal suggested, I added a : in the address. Now it worked better, and I had to type my password to the server, but then I got a similar error message:
fatal: '/home/jonas/code/myproject.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Do I have to initialize a Git repository on the server before I can git push to it?
Answer
git remote add origin [email protected]/home/jonas/code/myproject.git
When using SSH, remote repository addresses can be expressed in two ways. One using absolute paths and one using relative paths from the users home directory. You've mixed them up.
The corrected command would be one of the following.
git remote add origin [email protected]:code/myproject.git
git remote add origin ssh://[email protected]/home/jonas/code/myproject.git