Question

I just bought a new computer. On my old machine I had an XCode project that was cloned from a remote repo on BitBucket.

I decided to copy the physical git project folder/files from my old machine to my new machine.

I did some work in XCode in my_branch and was able to stage and check in to the local git repo on my new machine.

Now when I tried to ‘git push my_branch origin’ get the error…

fatal: 'my_branch' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

What did I do wrong? What should I have done?
Is it because I didn’t setup the public/private keys between my new machine and BitBucket? I thought I did this but maybe I didn’t do it correctly.

Answer 1

if you do it right, than it should work:

git push [<repository> [<refspec>...]]

so git push origin my_branch should do the trick!