I want to add a project which is located in my documents into a git repository, is this do-able? Thanks, I've never used git before
- 1How far have you got? What have you read? Are you stuck, or are you just asking if it's even possible, or worth trying? (The short answer is yes.)Benjol– Benjol2010-09-08 08:45:57 +00:00Commented Sep 8, 2010 at 8:45
- I removed the "svn" tag from your posts since this has nothing to do with svn. Please only add relevant tags to your posts.Albin Sunnanbo– Albin Sunnanbo2010-09-08 09:34:55 +00:00Commented Sep 8, 2010 at 9:34
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In theory yes:
cd yourRep git init . git add . git commit -m "first commit" You might want to add a .gitignore first in order to not add every file in your directory.
Some of them might not be relevant: see "Started using git recently … just noticed clones of my files with ' ~ ' appended in the end… why is this happening" for instance.
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Certainly. Start by navigating to the root folder of your project. Once you are there execute git init to initialize a git repository in place. This repository is empty. You will have to add the necessary resources before you can commit them.
Start with git add -i. This is an interactive way of adding new resources to the repository. If you wish to add all files then execute git add . instead. It would be a good idea to create a .gitignore file, add the patterns of unnecessary files to it and then do git add .
Once you are done, execute git commit.
