Make a git uninitialized project the new master branch using a new branch?

Question

I have a project which I unzipped on my local machine and now I want that project to have its own branch and additionally I want that branch to overwrite the master branch

When I unzipped the project these are the commands which I've made

git branch returns " fatal: not a git repository "

so this is what I did

git init

afterwards

git branch didn't return a fatal...: it actually didn't return anything

git remote -v and git remote show origin both didn't return anything

that's when I decided to do

git remote add origin https://github.com/AquaSolid/Serpent-Works

now

git remote -v actually returned a fetch and a push for origin

git remote show origin now prints all the remote branches

Now, I decided to make a new branch

git checkout -b revamped
git add -A
git commit -m "Revamped Initial..."

Now, git branch returns just the line * revamped which is written with green letters

I did git push origin revamped and that's how I managed to get my revamped branch to show on the github repo's website

This is the error I'm getting

>git checkout revamped
Already on 'revamped'
M       .idea/workspace.xml

>git merge --strategy=ours master
merge: master - not something we can merge

>git checkout master
error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.

Answer 1

Seems you want to contribute to the github repo ( https://github.com/AquaSolid/Serpent-Works ) in a new branch revamped while keeping the commit history for the existing branches.

And if you want to create the branch revamped from the master branch, you should clone the github repo instead of download and unzip . Since you have already pushed revamped branch into github repo, you can use below steps to recreate revamped branch from master branch:

# In a local directory (such as an empty folder)
git clone https://github.com/AquaSolid/Serpent-Works
cd Serpent-Works
git checkout -B revamped
# Make changes and commit 
git push -u origin revamped -f

Now the branch revamped is recreated from master branches on github.