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For the second situation, you need to initialize the Git repository in your project folder. To do so, you need to navigate to the correct folder and then run the command git init , which will create a new empty Git repository or reinitialize an existing one.
The “… does not a appear to be a git repository” error is triggered when you try to clone, or run other commands, in a directory that is not recognized as a Git repository. The directory or remote file path might not have initialized Git, or the file path you are trying to access as an active repository is incorrect.
$HOME/.gitconfig is your global config for git.
There are three levels of config files.
cat $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.git/config
(mentioned by bereal) is your local config, local to the repo you have cloned.
you can also type from within your repo:
git remote -v
And see if there is any remote named 'origin' listed in it.
If not, if that remote (which is created by default when cloning a repo) is missing, you can add it again:
git remote add origin url/to/your/fork
The OP mentions:
Doing
git remote -vgives:
upstream git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git (fetch)
upstream git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git (push)
So 'origin' is missing: the reference to your fork.
See "What is the difference between origin and upstream in github"
I faced the same problem when I renamed my repository on GitHub. I tried to push at which point I got the error
fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
I had to change the URL using
git remote set-url origin ssh://[email protected]/username/newRepoName.git
After this all commands started working fine. You can check the change by using
git remote -v
In my case after successfull change it showed correct renamed repo in URL
[aniket@alok Android]$ git remote -v
origin ssh://[email protected]/aniket91/TicTacToe.git (fetch)
origin ssh://[email protected]/aniket91/TicTacToe.git (push)
It is possible the other branch you try to pull from is out of synch; so before adding and removing remote try to (if you are trying to pull from master)
git pull origin master
for me that simple call solved those error messages:
Try to create remote origin first, maybe is missing because you change name of the remote repo
git remote add origin URL_TO_YOUR_REPO
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