I have searched extensively for an answer to my situation to no avail. Please forgive me if this has been answered and I just for some reason couldn't find it.
I recently completely wiped my hard drive and reinstalled my OS (Xubuntu 20.04). After getting the OS installed, I synchronized all my files from my local backup to the restored system, which included the git repository I had on the previous OS install. Well, I made changes to one of the files in my repository and went to do a git status and I got a message saying, "Your branch is up-to-date."
I tried some things like, git fetch, git init, and still the same message as above.
Well, I read somewhere to remove the .git folder and do git init again and then git add . then git commit -m "Message" and then git push -u origin master. Now, I'm getting the message,
"fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists."
If anyone could pleas give me some guidance on this issue, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
You need to add origin to your git repository because you have removed the .git folder. Try the following
git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git
# Set a new remote
git remote -v
# Verify new remote
origin https://github.com/user/repo.git (fetch)
origin https://github.com/user/repo.git (push)
For more details click here. Then push your changes to the git using
git push origin master
Don't forgot to move your ssh keys back to ~/.ssh directory if you have a backup of them otherwise create new ssh keys
For pulling the latest data from repo., use git pull