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Place a Visual Studio project in a git repository and add a remote (bare?) origin on networkdrive

I have a visual studio solution I have been working on. The project may actually be more use full than I fist anticipated, so I want place it in a local git repository.

I also want to make a remote origin (bare repository) on an other (backed-up network) drive.

I have seen a zillion explanations, here on stack and else where, but when I try them the they don't seem to have desired result (don't track, can't push, etc.)

If someone has the correct commands in order of appearance I would be most grateful.

Say my project lives on "D:\projects\myapp" and I want the remote on "G:\remotes\myapp"

The tools at my disposal are: VS2022 community edition GitGUI version 2.34.1.windows.1 GitBash version 4.4.23

UPDATE: I made a test project to try Jessehouwings solution: Turn my project folder into a Git repo: ProjectToGitRepo Add Ignore and add the project files: AddFiles First commit: Commit So far so good:CommitCreated

Then create a bare repository on my backup-ed storage drive: CreateRemote

Add remote to the project repo: LinkLocalAndRemote

Try to push some changes error message VisualStudioNoCanDo

What did I do wrong? It looks like the path to the remote is not correct: ErrorMessage

But how do I specify a local drive there?

Solution

  • I used the script below. Most important part, is to use / for your remote path.

    C:\Users\JesseHouwing\gittest>md repo
C:\Users\JesseHouwing\gittest>cd repo
C:\Users\JesseHouwing\gittest\repo>git init
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Users/JesseHouwing/gittest/repo/.git/

C:\Users\JesseHouwing\gittest\repo>notepad readme.md
C:\Users\JesseHouwing\gittest\repo>git add readme.md
C:\Users\JesseHouwing\gittest\repo>git commit -m "readme"
[main (root-commit) 293503d] readme
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 readme.md

C:\Users\JesseHouwing\gittest\repo>cd ..
C:\Users\JesseHouwing\gittest>md remote
C:\Users\JesseHouwing\gittest>cd remote

C:\Users\JesseHouwing\gittest\remote>git init --bare
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Users/JesseHouwing/gittest/remote/

C:\Users\JesseHouwing\gittest\remote>cd ..\repo
C:\Users\JesseHouwing\gittest\repo>git remote add network C:/Users/JesseHouwing/gittest/remote

C:\Users\JesseHouwing\gittest\repo>git push network main
Enumerating objects: 3, done.
Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 218 bytes | 218.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
To C:/Users/JesseHouwing/gittest/remote
 * [new branch]      main -> main