Question

This is probably very simple but I’ve just started using git.

I’ve installed it on my server and my PC.

The server already has a functioning website but I want to use this as the main repo and branch it to my local machine. Here’s what I’ve done so far on the server:

> cd /path/to/website/
> git init
> git add .

And on my development machine I tried this:

> git init
> git pull ssh://user@server/path/to/website

But this gives me the error “Couldn’t find remote ref head”

I’m sure I’m missing something very simple but I’m not sure how I can set this up to work with an existing folder structure?

Answer 1

You didn’t actually commit anything. On the server, try git commit.