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Reputation: 27749

GIT naming my repository

I'm following this guide where it says to run $ git clone --bare stef_project stef_project.git. I get fatal: repository 'stef_project' does not exist.

It seems my repo doesn't have a name. In the .git folder there is a DESCRIPTION file that contained a default message which I replaced with stef_project, now when I run the clone command again I still get the same error message.

How can I name or rename my repo?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1277

Answers (2)

Daniel Bragg
Daniel Bragg

Reputation: 1953

In my case, I found this worked:

D:\AEMS\AEMS Website>git clone --bare "AEMS Website" AEMS_Website.git
fatal: repository 'AEMS Website' does not exist

D:\AEMS\AEMS Website>git clone --bare . AEMS_Website.git
Cloning into bare repository 'AEMS_Website.git'...
done.

It looks like the embedded space in the folder name causes a problem that using "." avoids.

Upvotes: 0

Milan Babuškov
Milan Babuškov

Reputation: 61098

What's your current working directory? Suppose it's called "mydir", you can move one directory above and clone like this:

cd ..
git clone --bare mydir stef_project.git

Upvotes: 4

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