GIT naming my repository

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I'm following this guide where it says to run $ git clone --bare stef_project stef_project.git. I get fatal: repository 'stef_project' does not exist.

It seems my repo doesn't have a name. In the .git folder there is a DESCRIPTION file that contained a default message which I replaced with stef_project, now when I run the clone command again I still get the same error message.

How can I name or rename my repo?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 10 '12 at 16:11

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What's your current working directory? Suppose it's called "mydir", you can move one directory above and clone like this:

cd ..
git clone --bare mydir stef_project.git

answered Apr 10 '12 at 16:11

Milan Babuškov

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That worked. Any idea why editing the DESCRIPTION file didn't seem to (re)name the repo? – stef Apr 10 '12 at 16:14
Sharing [my answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/34270097/2404470) for future readers – Zameer Ansari Dec 14 '15 at 14:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 18 '20 at 19:22

In my case, I found this worked:

D:\AEMS\AEMS Website>git clone --bare "AEMS Website" AEMS_Website.git
fatal: repository 'AEMS Website' does not exist

D:\AEMS\AEMS Website>git clone --bare . AEMS_Website.git
Cloning into bare repository 'AEMS_Website.git'...
done.

It looks like the embedded space in the folder name causes a problem that using "." avoids.

GIT naming my repository

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