git clone from local to remote

Question

We\'re in the process of migrating from Mercurial to Git for our workflow and I have two minor issues.

First, is it possible to \"clone\" a local repository directly

Answer 1

This answer is good but I was not able to get it to work for me. The following code from this link did http://thelucid.com/2008/12/02/git-setting-up-a-remote-repository-and-doing-an-initial-push/. On the remote run

mkdir my_project.git
cd my_project.git
git init --bare
git-update-server-info # If planning to serve via HTTP

Locally on an existing repository that already has at least one commit run

git remote add origin git@example.com:my_project.git
git push -u origin master

I hope this helps anyone that had problems with the other answer.