Question

I followed these instructions from GitHub web page to create a first repo;

Global setup:
Set up git
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"
  git config --global user.email [e-mail]

Next steps:
  mkdir OpenSourceContrib  
  cd OpenSourceContrib  
  git init
  touch README
  git add README
  git commit -m 'first commit'
  git remote add origin [e-mail]:dlib/OpenSourceContrib.git
  git push -u origin master

Existing Git Repo?
cd existing_git_repo
git remote add origin [e-mail]:dlib/OpenSourceContrib.git
git push -u origin master

Everything goes ok until cd existing_git_repo ; then, I tried several path in the following command ‘git remote add origin …’ (notably, I first tried with the path where README file is located, beginning c:/Users/…). Now, when I write this precise bash command

  git remote add origin [e-mail]:dlib/OpenSourceContrib.git

I get

  fatal: remote origin already exists

and when I write the next command,

  git push -u origin master

I have the following error

  ERROR: repository not found
  fatal: The remote ended up unexpectedly

I don’t understand where this errors are coming from, how to remove for instance the remote origin to start from scratch again, or how to fix it.

Btw, could you point to good quick reference to bash?

Regards.

Answer 1

Your question, command sequences and subsequent comments are not adding up. You apparently already have a repository in ‘Hello-World’ – suggesting you followed the GitHub instructions. But now, when creating OpenSourceContrib, you appear to be in the ‘Hello-World’ source tree (with .git repository) – hence the ‘origin already exists’.

Just start again. Create a new GitHub repository and carefully create your source code tree with local Git repository)