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I'm new to Git, and have set it up and created my first repository. I'm trying to add a README as the first commit, and I've been following the steps on http://help.github.com/create-a-repo/ exactly, but I get stuck on this step:
git push -u origin master
I get this error:
ERROR: username/Hello-World.git doesn't exist. Did you enter it correctly?
I think it is because I got the git remote add command wrong: I forgot to substitute my username and repository name. Retrying it with the correct arguments gives me:
$ git remote add origin [email protected]:christineh/Hello-World.git
fatal: remote origin already exists.
$ git push -u origin master
Enter passphrase for key '/Users/christinehorvat/.ssh/id_rsa':
ERROR: username/Hello-World.git doesn't exist. Did you enter it correctly?
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly'
How can I clean this up and get the correct remote?
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If you have uncommitted changes, the merge part of the git pull command will fail and your local branch will be untouched. Thus, you should always commit your changes in a branch before pulling new commits from a remote repository.
You simply need to remove the origin remote that has the incorrect reference with:
$ git remote rm origin
Then restart the add, and push, and you should be good to go.
$ git remote add origin [email protected]:christineh/Hello-World.git
$ git push -u origin master
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