在远程 GIT 存储库上推送/创建新目录而不克隆整个存储库，只需使用 git init 初始化

Question

I got little bit lazy, so I wanted to take a shortcut:

I wanted to upload some new programming examples to my GIT remote repo, so I created VS solution (for non .NET pepole, just a simple directory) on my desktop. So it looks like this:

• Desktop
  • some desktop file.txt
  • some catalog
  • MyProgrammingExamples

So, in order to push MyProgrammingExamples onto GitHub repo, I navigated in PowerShell to my desktop, fired

git init
git add MyProgrammingExamples
git commit -m 'some message'

Now, I'd liek it to push it onto remote, so further I run commands:

git remote add 'url to my repo'
git push origin master

But it gives me:

fatal: The current branch master has no upstream branch.

So I tried:

git remote add master --mirror=push 'url to my repo'

which reulsted in

fatal: remote master already exists.

Well, it would be good that someone explain what is hapenning, but what I am really after is to how to achieve my goal, ie create catalog somewhere (anywhere, not a GIT catalog) and then easily push it to existing remote repository.

Answer 1

According to this SO post , such operation is impossible, but there's workaround:

# create new branch and commit to it, then push to origin
# (assumed, that remote repo is already added, as in question)
git checkout -b single_file_branch
git add file_to_add_to_repo
git commit -m 'some message'
git push origin

Then we switch to local repo connected to the remote one, which is up to date and do:

# pull newest changes (as well as the branch)
git pull
# merge branches, allowing unrelated histories (without it it would generate an error)
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories origin/single_file_branch

Answer 2

你可以直接从visual studio创建一个新的repo，只需从visual studio登录github，然后使用visual studio中的git菜单来完成git支持的所有事情！