I am currently trying to save some files in a bare git repository, as described here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754
However, I am trying this with Git for Windows, and not on a Linux machine. The bare git repository gets created, but I am struggling to get the push
working correctly. This is what I have done:
username@hostname MINGW64 ~/Desktop
$ mkdir .myconf
username@hostname MINGW64 ~/Desktop
$ git init --bare "/c/Users/username/Desktop/.myconf"
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Users/username/Desktop/.myconf/
username@hostname MINGW64 ~/Desktop
$ alias config="git --git-dir='/c/Users/username/Desktop/.myconf' --work-tree='/c/Users/username/Desktop/'"
username@hostname MINGW64 ~/Desktop
$ config config status.showUntrackedFiles no
username@hostname MINGW64 ~/Desktop
$ config status
On branch master
Initial commit
nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)
username@hostname MINGW64 ~/Desktop
$ config add test.txt
username@hostname MINGW64 ~/Desktop
$ config commit -m "Added test file."
[master (root-commit) a587ec1] Added test file.
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 test.txt
Everything so far has worked correctly. However, when I try to push
, this happens:
username@hostname MINGW64 ~/Desktop
$ config push
fatal: No configured push destination.
Either specify the URL from the command-line or configure a remote repository using
git remote add <name> <url>
and then push using the remote name
git push <name>
Also a push
to origin master
does not work:
username@hostname MINGW64 ~/Desktop
$ config push origin master
fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
Apparently, git wants a push destination.
I have not seen that setting such a destination is a necessary step in the linked description (nor in any derived blog posts), and I am unsure how to do that with Git for Windows. How can this be solved?
remote
url for a local, bare Git repository on a Windows system?