A few years ago I finally managed to have a few VS solutions in the Bitbucket cloud and from time to time I even succeed to commit changes to it (I've got a long list of issues trying to do that but that's another story).
Now I have a new solution which I want to have as a Bitbucket repo so I can commit changes from within Visual Studio and (but that is also a next step) I want to synchronize changes with a fellow programmer.
In VS I have a Bitbucket Extension and I am logged in. I open my solution and from the tab Team Explorer, icon Manage connections. Now I've got 2 options:
1 I can click Clone from this extension. What I see is existing repos in the cloud. So apparently that won't get me anywhere.
2 I can also click Create. I enter the name (=the name of the solution), no description, and as I have to enter a local path I select a directory e:\BitBucketRepo. In the TeamExplorer I can see The repository was cloned successfully. Create a new project or solution in this repository. In the output window it says E:\BitBucketRepo Cloning into 'E:\BitBucketRepo\Projectname
Warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
Why? What did I do wrong?
A subdirectory has been created in e:\BitBucketRepo with the name I've chosen and there is a repo added in the cloud. But they all seem empty. I can't click in the Git Changes window and I can only stop VS confirming that an active modal dialog is open (which is nowhere to be seen).
3 When I restart I see, in the lower right corner of VS Add to source control while in an earlier project I see the name of the project, master and the changes on which I can click to push to the Bitbucket repo. So apparently the above was not enough to get my project under source control.
I tried what was working earlier, according to my notes: File/Add to source control. But then I have to create a Git repository in GitHub (which I try to avoid by using Bitbucket). When I click Existing remote and enter the URL of my cloud Bitbucket Repo, I can't select Create and Push (greyed out). When I also enter the local Git repository and enter the local path of step 3 it says it already exists. This is not going to work.
So what step do I miss to get my whole project under Bitbucket source control, commit changes to my local directory and push it from the Git repository window to the Bitbucket repo?
EDIT: I found out that the .git directory of the solution I created in e:\BitBucketRepo didn't serve any purpose. The VS solutions where it worked had the .git directory within the solution.
I prevented that because 1) it seems logical to me to have the local repo on a separate disk and 2) in one of the attempts to get this working, using the solution's directory VS was overwriting all my project files (without warning) with .git files. Fortunately I made a backup as I do not trust VS anywhere. Not sure how to do this right but apparently I need to have it there.
At least one major question remains. I copied the earlier .got content within the project and I see the red icons when something is changed and they disappear when I right click somewhere in the solution, Got/Commit/Commit or Stash. So far so good.
But now, when I click on the lower right git symbol with my project's name (this opens the Git Repository) I do not see a Push option (to get the changes to the Bitbucket cloud).
I can now choose Git/Push to Git service, then select Existing Remote, https://MyName@bitbucket.org/MyName/mysolution.git and push from there, but I have to do that every time again.
1 So what can I do to push changes to the bitbucket repo easily? It works in 1 solution, see lower picture and not in the other one, see upper picture.
2 What should I do differently in the above steps?
I appreciate any help.
