Question

I built out a project and have been pushing it to git hub. I then made a copy of the folder (on my local machine) and started going in a different direction with it. I created a new repo on github but it won’t let me push the changes because it still thinks it’s part of the old repo. When I go to change the name, it resets the files on my local machine back to the previous repo! Good thing I saved a copy before trying this.

Basically what I want to do is start a new repo on github with my current project but keep all the git revisions I did in the past. Is this possible?

Answer 1

I think you must first have to remove your reference to the old repository: (in this case origin is the name of the reference to github)

git remote rm origin

And add the new reference:

git remote add origin [e-mail]:.....

And then push all the commits from your local repository to github

git push origin master