How do you create a new project/repository?
A git repository is simply a directory containing a special .git
directory.
This is different from "centralised" version-control systems (like subversion), where a "repository" is hosted on a remote server, which you checkout
into a "working copy" directory. With git, your working copy is the repository.
Simply run git init
in the directory which contains the files you wish to track.
For example,
cd ~/code/project001/
git init
This creates a .git
(hidden) folder in the current directory.
To make a new project, run git init
with an additional argument (the name of the directory to be created):
git init project002
(This is equivalent to: mkdir project002 && cd project002 && git init)
To check if the current current path is within a git repository, simply run git status
- if it's not a repository, it will report "fatal: Not a git repository"
You could also list the .git
directory, and check it contains files/directories similar to the following:
$ ls .git
HEAD config hooks/ objects/
branches/ description info/ refs/
If for whatever reason you wish to "de-git" a repository (you wish to stop using git to track that project). Simply remove the .git
directory at the base level of the repository.
cd ~/code/project001/
rm -rf .git/
Caution: This will destroy all revision history, all your tags, everything git has done. It will not touch the "current" files (the files you can currently see), but previous changes, deleted files and so on will be unrecoverable!
You can
git remote set-url origin new.git.url/here
(see git help remote
) or you can edit .git/config
and change the URLs there. You're not in any danger of losing history unless you do something very silly (and if you're worried, just make a copy of your repo, since your repo is your history.)
Best Answer
Edit (by @dk14 as suggested by moderators and comments)
WARNING: If you use
credential.helper store
from the answer, your password is going to be stored completely unencrypted ("as is") at~/.git-credentials
. Please consult the comments section below or the answers from the "Linked" section, especially if your employer has zero tolerance for security issues.Even though accepted, it doesn't answer the actual OP's question about omitting a username only (not password). For the readers with that exact problem @grawity's answer might come in handy.
Original answer (by @Alexander Zhu):
You can store your credentials using the following command
Also I suggest you to read
$ git help credentials