Believe it or not, I'm still new to GitHub. I'm using GitHub Desktop.

I previously uploaded my repo to Github, let's call it Repo A.

Now I have a version of the same code of Repo A in my localhost, let's call it Repo A because some code in this repo has been updated. The old .git folder is no longer available.

So, how can I add and push Repo A in localhost to Repo A?

My concern is when I fetch (or pull, I'm not sure) Repo A from GitHub, will it overwrite all my updated files in Repo A ?

CodePudding user response：

Your Repo A is on github.com Lets assume its this path: And lets assume your directory on localhost is

/home/mewiben39/dev/RepoA  /

https://github.com/mewiben39/RepoA.git

switch to a directory some other location lets say (below is my assumed directory) cd /home/mewben39/dev/git_clones/ then git clone https://github.com/mewben39/RepoA.git

this will clone your remote repo locally to (this will also contain .git folder but its hidden)

/home/mewben39/dev/git_clones/RepoA/

RepoA contains code from github.com which you want to be merged with RepoA

Now run the below command

cp -rv /home/mewiben39/dev/RepoA  /*  /home/mewben39/dev/git_clones/RepoA/

the above cp command will copy data from RepoA to RepoA

now you have overwritten code from RepoA to RepoA on local,

then navigate to RepoA you cloned locally and git add . and finally commit the code git commit -m 'copied code from RepoA to RepoA' then git push`.

Remember git add . is not recommended I did it as you copying code from updated RepoA which is you are moving entire code base.

Also, I have used this method because you mentioned you have code in RepoA updated.

Alliteratively you can also navigate to RepoA and set remote URL to git remote set main github.com/mewiben39/repoA.git

then git push with force flag. Using force flag is not recommended.