After a Git push, remote repo shows files as deleted

Question

I cannot find any of the files on my remote repo.

1. Created a Git repo on shared hosting (site5) as described by their tutorial
2. init\'d it and added a s

Answer 1

You shouldn't have created a 'standard' git repo on the remote host, as Brian Campbell noted. What you should do:

1. copy all the files you wish to place under version control to a directory on your local machine.

2. delete them and their containing directory on the remote host.

3. still on the remote host create a new directory called projectname.git (substitute a meaningful name for projectname), cd into it, and run git init --bare

4. on your local machine, in the directory in which you've placed your files:

   • run git init to initialise a git repo
   • run git add . to add all files and sub-directories
   • run git commit -m "Initial commit"
   • You should see something like [master agd27c9] Initial commit
   • run git remote add origin ssh://hostaddress/path/to/dir/projectname.git (you may have to modify this slightly, if you usually access your remote host using ssh://user@hostaddress, for instance)
   • run git push origin master
5. You should see a message indicating connection to your remote host, and some output from git indicating that the push was successful. It usually looks like:
   Counting objects ...
Delta compression ...
Writing objects ...
Total ...
To ssh:// ...
6. If everything happened as described above, you're done. You could add default push and merge if you wish:
   • git config branch.master.remote origin && git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master