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mko
mko

Reputation: 22114

How to give a git repo a name?

I am making a remote repo by using these command

mkdir NewRepo
cd NewRepo
git init

Then I clone this repo to local

git clone user@server:/path/to/app/.git

This worked for me, But I want give the repo a name, do something like everybody else does:

git clone user@server:/path/to/app/reponame.git

Is there anyone who can tell me how to do this?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 42334

Answers (3)

user257111
user257111

Reputation:

It is possible to create a git repository directly in a folder, without the subdirectory .git. To do this, you do this:

mkdir myrepo.git
cd myrepo.git
git init --bare

This is called a bare repository - it contains the contents of what would normally be in a .git folder. It has no working copy. These sorts of repositories are usually used in the remote server (where you're pushing your changes); i.e., when your remote repository basically reflects what you've committed locally, and nobody is working directly on the code in the remote server location (therefore no need for a working copy.)

More detail:

  1. Use in distributed workflows.
  2. setting up a public repository

Upvotes: 20

user611775
user611775

Reputation: 1353

The name is given by the directory, as mentioned above, though it does support given a description for software like gitweb:

echo "Happy description" >.git/description

Upvotes: 16

Elbert Alias
Elbert Alias

Reputation: 1790

Repositories don't have names, you just use the folder name (I suppose you could name the folder "app.git":

git clone user@server:/path/to/app

Remotes do have names, e.g. "origin" or whatever you like. This is up to the client though, not a property of the remote repository.

git remote add origin user@server:/path/to/app

Upvotes: 7

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