Question

In Mercurial, I usually do this:

hg init
hg addremove
hg commit -m "init repo"
hg push https://arezzo:[e-mail]/arezzo/mynewrepo

I tried something similar in git and it didn’t work:

git init .
git add .
git commit -m "init repo"
git push https://arezzo:[e-mail]/arezzo/mynewrepo

The message I get after push is:

Everything up-to-date

Nothing gets pushed to bitbucket.

Answer 1

When you don’t specify a branch to push when you’re using git push, it by default will only push branches where a branch with the same name exists in the remote repository. In this case, I guess that this is the first time that you’re pushing to this repository, so there is no branch called master yet – thus, git push URL doesn’t push anything.

Another tip that may be useful is that you usually create a remote as a short name for the repository URL when you’re using git. So, to modify your steps slightly, try the following instead:

mkdir mynewrepo
cd mynewrepo

git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git remote add origin https://arezzo:[e-mail]/arezzo/mynewrepo
git push -u origin master

Then you can use origin in place of the URL. You only need to use the -u option the first time that you push – it just sets up some helpful default config options so that git pull works without additional arguments, for instance.