Jonathon, Don't worry about it. I managed to tell git to overwrite all my files and lost over a week of changes, so I am dumping git and just using rsync to keep backups of the project directory at an offsite location.
Mark On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 4:04 PM Mark Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > Jonathan, > > All I want to do is create a new remote repo based on my current local > repo. The local repo is the master copy of all my work. > > Can you tell me what I did wrong, and where my logic went astray? > > Thanks, > > Mark > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 7:28 PM Johnathan Mantey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The second option won't help you. You've blown away your "private", which >> I >> assume is just the "remote" repository. >> You are trying to somehow recover your "remote" using the contents of your >> "local". >> I will have to look, and think a little more, about how to accomplish what >> you want without restoring what your deleted at your cloud storage. >> >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 4:39 PM Mark Phillips <[email protected] >> > >> wrote: >> >> > I need some help from an experienced git user to unravel a git issue I >> am >> > having. >> > >> > I have a local repo and a private remote repo in the cloud (not >> github). I >> > am the only user. I have been using these two for a couple of years >> with no >> > issues. However, I inadvertently included some large test files in some >> > commits, and the repo grew to over 8 GB and started having issues. I >> went >> > through the local repo and removed the unnecessary files using BFG repo >> > cleaner, and now it is down to 145 MB. I thought I could just wipe out >> > (i.e. delete) my remote repo, make a new one, and then push my local to >> > remote and be done with it. It did not work out as I planned. >> > >> > I posted a detailed question on stackoverflow - >> > >> > >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64055979/issues-with-updating-a-fresh-remote-git-repository?noredirect=1#comment113275077_64055979 >> > and got one suggestion, but I don't really understand what the person is >> > suggesting. I also found this article, which seems to relate, but it is >> not >> > detailed enough for me to follow it. >> > https://www.nickang.com/2017-09-30-replace-git-branch-code/ >> > >> > I am hoping someone on the list who has some experience with git, can >> help >> > me fix this problem. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > Mark >> > _______________________________________________ >> > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org >> > PLUG mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
