I started using Git Extensions with no prior knowledge of Git. I created a personal repository for a project I was given that was not under source control. I made a bunch of commits, and then copied (instead of cloning, which I now see is what I should have done) the source directory and gave it to the person who gave me the project in the first place.
Since then we have both made further changes to our respective local repositories, and we are planning to merge them in the near future. Is this possible, given that I didn’t properly clone my repository before giving it to the other person?
Cloning and copying are the same thing (assuming you included the .git directory in the copy) except that remotes are not configured. You can merge them exactly as you would a cloned repository, save that you’ll have to configure a remote to fetch from in one of your copies.