Push a Local Repository

Overview

This document provides the process that allows a user to populate a new GitLab repository with files stored on a local machine.

Assumptions and Prerequisites

The local project is a Git project, and all changes have been committed and are up to date locally. To push a local git project to an already existing remote repository, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the local git repository folder.
2. Confirm a valid git repository.
   • Run git status.
3. Run git remote add origin < URL of remote repo >.
4. Run git pull --set-upstream origin < branch name on remote repo > --allow-unrelated-histories.
5. Run git push.

Steps

Follow these steps to populate files from your machine into a new repository in GitLab.

1. Navigate to the local Git repository folder.

   • This implies the Git repository is valid, but to confirm, you can execute the command git status.

2. Execute the following commands:

   git remote add origin < URL of remote repo >.
   git pull --set-upstream origin < branch name on remote repo > --allow-unrelated-histories.
   git push