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Asked: 2026-05-25T03:01:22+00:00

i have struggled to implement git as my version control system on numerous occasions…

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i have struggled to implement git as my version control system on numerous occasions… so frustrated. read numerous articles and tutorials. searched but can’t seem to create a search that addresses what i need to know. In this attempt i am trying to do the following. Tell me if this is wrong please.

  1. MAIN BARE REPO: create a bare repository on my development machine that i can push changes to (done. currently has nothing in it.)
  2. DEVELOPMENT BRANCH REPO: initiate a repository in the directory that i can make changes in and then push to the bare repository. (done. completed the first commit.)
  3. PRODUCTION BRANCH REPO: initiate a repository on my host to pull updates from the bare repository. (not done yet.)

I thought that #1 and #2 were almost done when i attempted to push from DEVELOPMENT to MAIN BARE REPO and got:

no origin was found for working tree

Do i need to set the MAIN BARE REPO as the origin? Is there a command to do that? I’m afraid to ask for an article because most of the material that is written on git i have a really hard time applying for some reason.

If the answer is:

git push --all <url-of-bare-repo>

What does that look like with the following information?

  1. The development branch that i’m pushing from is located at /Users/me/sites/devel_repo
  2. The main bare repo that i’m pushing to is located at /Users/me/sites/main_repo

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  1. Editorial Team

    origin is a remote.

    You can add it like this from your DEV repo:

    git remote add origin path/to/bare/repo

    So in your case, it will be like:

    git remote add origin /Users/me/sites/main_repo

    Once this is done, you can issue the git push origin master etc.

    Generally, when you clone from another repo, this origin is automatically setup. It is just a convention and a default. You can have some other name if you like.

    Also, note that, to push, it is not necessary to have a remote. It is just a short-hand to a repo path / url so that you don’t have to repeat it again and again. It looked for origin when you pushed because when you do git push, it by default tries to push to origin.

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