Question

I have an existing project in XCode 4.5 which is not under any form of source control. All I want to do is add it to a BitBucket repository so that I can work alongside another developer.

I’ve tried and tried to get this code under source control and onto a BitBucket repository, but I just can’t seem to nail it.

Could someone please talk me through it, step-by-step.

• I’ve created a repository in BitBucket and it’s waiting for my code.

• To create the repository localled, I ran git init, git add . and git commit -m 'Initial version' on the relevant directory.

• BitBucket suggests that I run hg push to import an existing repository, but I get the following error:

  • abort: no repository found in ‘/Users/xxx/Documents/Dev/projectname’ (.hg not found)!

If I go into XCode, I have a repository showing in the Organizer. But it’s not connected with BitBucket at all.

All help very gratefully received. Thanks.

Answer 1

You need to add your bitbucket repository as a remote to your local one. You can do this by running

git remote add origin [e-mail]:userName/repositoryName.git.

You then need to push your local files to the remote repo by running

git push origin master

Note that this will push them to the master branch on the bitbucket repo.