Tyler Cipriani: Integrating git with your existing website

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jarrodsbirch95 — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 12:54:21 +0000

This is a post that has been a lifesaver for me. I read this every time I need to set up Git with an existing project (surprisingly often) and it is always an efficient way of doing things. Thanks for covering this so well Tyler - this is far better than other posts on this subject.

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thcipriani — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 18:55:57 +0000

I use this post all the time, too

That’s the reason I write most of these posts—so I don’t have to figure out how to do something twice.

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e158a3r — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:22:33 +0000

Following these steps, I get an error:

git push -u origin master

fatal: ‘origin’ does not appear to be a git repository

fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

However, using ‘web’ rather than ‘origin’ results in what appears to be success.

Am I in error?

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thcipriani — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 07:30:16 +0000

No you’re not, I am, actually! The git remote add web named the remote web. You can list out all your remotes with git remote.

I’ll get a fix up here soon. Nice catch!

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hthomasrye — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:58:05 +0000

Thanks for the write up. This is quite nearly exactly what I’ve been looking for. I’m trying to setup a faux-central repo on my webserver so I can develop locally, push to central repo and then pull from central repo to production.

A couple things not quite working just yet, but I’m hopeful.