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git - notes

Push new branch to remote

git checkout -b <branch>

git push -u origin <branch>

Push existing folder to new repo

cd existing_folder
git init
git remote add origin git@gitlab.com:/path/to/project.git
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push -u origin master

Create new remote on server (non-github/gitlab)

from loacl git repo

git clone ā€”bare my_project my_project.git
scp -r my_project.git someservername:/srv/git/my_project.git

ssh to git host

cd /srv/git/my_project
git init ā€”bare ā€”shared

Verify you can clone

git clone someservername:/srv/git/my_project.git 

Add new remote

git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git

git pull force overwrite

git fetch --all
git reset --hard origin/master

Git tag:

git tag -a v1.2 -m ā€œsome noteā€
git push origin <tag name>
git checkout tag

Or

git checkout -b tag

Git change origin

git remote set-url origin git@gitlab:project/path/awesomething.git

for https:

git remote set-url origin https://gitlab.com/project/path/awesomething.git

Push existing git to gitlab

git remote rename origin old-origin
git remote add origin git@gitlab.com:path/to/project.git
git push -u origin --all
git push -u origin --tags

deal with fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories

git pull --allow-unrelated-histories

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