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Slims

Reputation: 864

Setting up Git Locally for use with Intellij Idea 12

I've been at this all night but can't seem to get anything working.

Here's what I want to do:

I have a project in IntelliJ Idea 12 that I want to use with Git. I want to use git locally for my personal use.

I have installed git and set it as my VCS in IntelliJ. However, I can't actually push anything because Intellij says that there is no remote set. In git bash, I set up a 'remote' folder elsewhere and called the folder 'Project.git'.

Then I navigate back to my intelliJ project and used the command:

git remote add origin C:\Users\Me\RemoteFolder.git

No errors.

Then I push and get the following error:

fatal: 'C:UsersMeRemoteFolder.git' 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.

Can someone tell me what's wrong? Or just give me a simple guide for setting up Git locally with Intellij? I have tried their documentation and about 100 google searches and cannot ever seem to find the answers to my questions.

Any help is appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1996

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1329582

First, you need to create a bare repo (git init --bare C:\Users\Me\RemoteFolder.git) in order to push to it.

Second, you need to declare that remote taking into account the fact that backslash (\) are not well supported. This should work better:

git remote add /C/Users/Me/RemoteFolder.git
# or even
git remote add C:/Users/Me/RemoteFolder.git

Upvotes: 2

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