The primary goal of this blog is to remind me how to link my local R project to a newly created git repo. The content are mainly from the chapter 17 of the book Happy Git and GitHub for the useR by Jennifer Bryan.
Step 1
Get a local R project and its folder ready.
Step 2
Create github repo
Step 3
Connect the local R project folder to the remote github repo
git initorusethis::use_git()- make a commit
- in terminal
git remote add origin <my-repo.git> - change the local branch name from
mastertomainif applicablegit branch -m main- Why Github renamed its master branch to main
if error fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories:
git pull origin main --allow-unrelated-histories- deal with any merge conflicts, then commit again
push, make sure working tree clean when git status
git push --set-upstream origin main
Some notes
- the name of the local folder doesn’t need to be the same as the name of the repo
git remote add origin <my-repo.git>is able to connect them- however, this might be the cause of the error
fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories. I’m not sure about this. - you can read more from this stackoverflow post, which I didn’t read through :)