Change Git repository directory location

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With Git Github for Windows  if I have a repository with this directory  C  dir1 dir2  what do I need to do to move the repo files to C  dir1   I can obviously physically copy and paste the files  but what do I need to do on the Git side   I have this repo on GitHub and I use Git Bash and GitHub for Windows

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I m not sure of the question  so here are two answers    If you want to move your repository    Simply copy the whole repository  with its  git directory    There is no absolute path in the  git structure and nothing preventing it to be moved so you have nothing to do after the move  All the links to github  see in  git config  will work as before   If you want to move files inside the repository    Simply move the files  Then add the changes listed in git status  The next commit will do the necessary  You ll be happy to learn that no file will be duplicated   moving a file in git is almost costless

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I use Github Desktop for Windows and I wanted to move location of a repository  No problem if you move your directory and choose the new location in the software  But if you set a bad directory  you get a fatal error and no second chance to make a relocation to the good one  So to repair that  You must copy project files in the bad directory  make its reconize by Github Desktop  after that  you can move again your project in another folder and make a relocate in the software  No need to close Github Desktop for that  it will check folders in live   Hoping this will help someone

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This did not work for me  I moved a repo from  e g   c  project1  to c  repo project1  and Git for windows does not show any changes   git status shows an error because one of the submodules  is not a git repository  and shows the old path  e g   names changed to protect IP   fatal  Not a git repository  C  project1  git modules subproject subproject2 fatal   git status --porcelain  failed in submodule subproject  I had to manually edit the  git files in the submodules to point to the correct relative path to the submodule s repo  in the main repo s  git modules directory

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While the question involves Git for Windows  this seems to be the top result even when searching for Visual Studio Tools For Git  extension in VS 2012  native support in VS 2013      Using the solutions above as a guide I determined that Visual Studio Git Tools makes moving repos  or even entire directory structure for all repos  locally very easy   1  Close Visual Studio  2  Move the Repo folder s  to new location  3  Open Visual Studio   Open Team Explorer   Switch to  Connect  view  plug icon at top   3a  If Repos still show old path  click Refresh to force an update  4  Repos that were moved locally should no longer be showing in  Local Git Repositories   5  Click Add  not new or clone  and select the repo folder to add   In step 5 you really are just providing a search path and the search automatically includes all subfolders   If you have multiple repos organized under a single root  independent repos just having the same parent folder  then selecting the parent will include all repos found below that   Example  E  Repos RepoA E  Repos RepoB E  Repos RepoC  In Visual Studio Team Explorer  Add     E  Repos      Add  will return all three to the Local Repositories

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I use Visual Studio git plugin  and I have some websites running on IIS I wanted to move  A simple way that worked for me    Close Visual Studio  Move the code  including git folder  etc  Click on the solution file from the new location   This refreshes the mapping to the new location  using the existing local git files that were moved  Once i was back in Visual Studio  my Team Explorer window showed the repos in the new location

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Report from the future  April 2018    I wanted to normalize my local repos on my Mac and my Windows  which had ended up in different local folders   The Windows 10 client made me go through the  Can t Find     Locate  routine  tedious but not terrible  Also need to update the local  Clone path  in Options for future use   When I consolidated the mac folders  the Github client just found them again - I had to do nothing

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If you are using GitHub Desktop  then just do the following steps    Close GitHub Desktop and all other applications with open files to your current directory path  Move the whole directory as mentioned above to the new directory location  Open GitHub Desktop and click on the blue      repository not found  icon  Then a dialog will open and you will see a  Locate     button which will open a popup allowing you to direct its path to a new location

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Simply copy the entire working directory contents  including the hidden  git directory   This will move the entire working directory to the new directory and will not affect the remote repository on GitHub   If you are using GitHub for Windows  you may move the repository using the method as above  However  when you click on the repository in the application it will be unable to find it  To resolve this simply click on the blue circle with the    select Find It and then browse to the new directory

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Although the previous answers all seem to say that you can just move the directory and there are no absolute paths in the  git structure  I found this to be untrue when using git from Cygwin   When I moved my git repo  in fact I restored it from a backup  but to a different drive as my drive structure changed on my new system   I got an error message like   fatal  Invalid path   lt part of the original repo path gt    No such file or directory   I used grep to find that in my  git config file in the  core  section is a worktree variable which holds the absolute path of my git repo  Changing this fixed the problem for me

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A more Git based approach would be to make the changes to your local copy using cd or copy and pasting and then pushing these changes from local to remote repository    If you try checking status of your local repo  it may show  untracked changes  which are actually the relocated files  To push these changes forcefully  you need to stage these files directories by using    git add -A  And commiting them   git commit -m  Relocating image demo files   And finally  push   git push -u local repo -f HEAD master   Hope it helps

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