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How can I upload existing files to a new repository when "git" is not recognized as a command

Billy Crosbie

Hi Folks

I've just set up my account, my team and my project, and the project repository. I have files already set up within a local folder structure that I want to upload to the new cloud repository. The documentation says to run this at the command line:

git remote add origin https://wexsoft@bitbucket.org/wexsoft_oracle/milk_sources.git

but when I do this in a Windows Command Prompt window, I get

'git' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

What am I missing?

Best regards

Billy

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Mikael Sandberg

Hi Billy,

Welcome to Atlassian Community.

Have you installed a Git client on your Windows machine? You can download the latest release of Git here.

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Mikael Sandberg

Hi Billy,

Welcome to Atlassian Community.

Have you installed a Git client on your Windows machine? You can download the latest release of Git here.

Billy Crosbie

Hi Mikael

Thanks very much for the prompt reply. I have installed the latest Git client on my Windows machine.

Now when I try this command:

git remote add origin https://wexsoft@bitbucket.org/wexsoft_oracle/milk_sources.git

I'm getting this error:

fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Do you know what this means? I am running a Windows Command Prompt, and have positioned myself in the top level folder where the files and sub-folders for this project are located.

Best regards

Billy

Mikael Sandberg

Did you run git init within the local folder structure first? This will tell git that this will be a git repository, and when you look in File Explorer you should see a .git directory in there.

Billy Crosbie

Hi Mikael

Thank you so much for your quick reply, and my apologies for being such a nube at this. I have used many other source control systems over the years (e.g. MS SourceSafe, Merant, Subversion etc.) but in all cases they were already configured and we used a graphical front end to check in and out etc.

In this case, we are setting up source control from scratch, and are using BitBucket. As a small test I set up a repository in BitBucket, and was trying to upload the files into it using the commands given by BitBucket. I did not see anything about having to install Git locally - perhaps this was assumed in the instructions. Also, the steps to init, add and commit should probably be spelled out for total nubes like me!

Anyway, I managed to get the repository created locally containing all our test files, and the upload instructions given in Bitbucket then worked fine.

Now I have just one more question, if you don't mind - can you recommend a good graphical front end for Git on Windows?

Thanks again for your help - very much appreciated.

Best regards

Billy

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