How to create a local push destination on a hard disk using Git

Question

I want to make a local push destination on my hard disk on Git, and use that destination(folder) for push and pull instead of adding an remote repository. How do I do that in Git?

Answer 1

Follow these steps:

1. Go to the folder you want to have your remote in

   $ cd /path/to/my-remote
   

2. Create a bare repository there via git init

   $ git init --bare
   

3. Go to the repository you want to work in and add a new remote pointing to the previously created repository via git remote add

   $ git remote add <name-of-remote> /path/to/my-remote
   

4. After these steps you should be able to push to your new remote <name-of-remote>

   $ git push -u <name-of-remote> master
   

   Where -u is used to set the upstream of your branch, only needed the first time you push.