Creating a remote repository from a local repository in Git
This article discusses the necessary steps to create a remote repository based on a local repository. This is ideal when you have a local repository that needs to be available on a remote or SSH-enabled server.
Creating a remote repository from a local repository in Git
We will use a practical example to understand how to create a remote repository from a local repository.
example:
We will start by creating a simple repo on GitHub. We will call this repo Secondaryrepo.
Follow these steps:
- Log in to your GitHub account, click Repositories, and then click New to create a remote repository.
- Once created, go to the code and copy the URL of the repository.
On our computer, we have a delftscopetech repository with a remote tracking repository. To create a remote repository from this repository, we need to start a bare repository in our delftscopetech repository as shown below.
$ git init --bare
We can now add our remote (Secondaryrepo) repository to our empty repository. Recall that we already have remote tracking in the Delftscopetech repository.
To differentiate between the two remotes, we will use orign for this remote repository.
$ git remote add orign https://github.com/Wachira11ke/Secondaryrepo.git
Let's check if the remote repository exists.
$ git remote -v
Now we can push to the remote Secondaryrepo repository as shown below.
$ git push -u orign
Note that you will push individual branches to the remote.
Output:
Let's take a look at our remote repository on GitHub.
As we can see from the above two images, Git created a Dev2.1 branch in the remote repository and pushed all the commits to our local repository. Now, our local repository can push and pull from this remote.
In summary, we can create a remote repository based on a local repository. If your local repository has a tracking remote repository, it is best to start a bare repository before adding another remote repository.
It is recommended to give your remote a new name instead of origin. It makes it easy to distinguish between multiple remotes in one repo.
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