为什么我不能将此远程GitHub存储库添加为本地GIT存储库？

Question

I am absolutly new in GIT and GitHub and I have the following problem trying to link my local repository to a GitHub account

I do:

Andrea@Andrea-PC MINGW64 ~/Documents/WS_vari/version-control/recipes (master)
$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/AndreaNobili/recipes.git
fatal: No such remote 'origin'

where https://github.com/AndreaNobili/recipes.git is the https link provided by GitHub for this repository.

Why I obtain this error message? What means No such remote 'origin' ? How can I fix this issue?

Answer 1

The command you are using is not adding a remote but setting the URL of an existing remote . The command you are looking for is

git remote add origin https://github.com/AndreaNobili/recipes.git

set-url can be used if you want to change an URL or fix a typo:

# Note the typo in the URL:
git remote add origin https://gmail.com/AndreaNobili/recipes.git
# This command fixes the typo:
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/AndreaNobili/recipes.git

Answer 2

As an extention to this, you could use

git remote add --track master origin github.com/AndreaNobili/recipes.git
git remote add --master origin github.com/AndreaNobili/recipes.git

This tracks the master branch only

git remote add --track different-oil origin github.com/AndreaNobili/recipes.git

This tracks the different-oil branch