Push an existing project into a new Azure DevOps repository in Visual Studio 2022
I have an existing Visual Studio project with existing code
and a newly created Azure DevOps (git) project with an empty repository.
Now from Visual Studio 2022 I want to push my project into the DevOps repository.
This should be a very common problem, I guess.
However, when I use "Create Git Repository", it won't let me create the repository with the same name, since it already exists, because DevOps automatically creates a repository with the same name for a new project:
So I don't really need to create a new repository, but just connect to the existing one, so I can push the project there. But I haven't found a good way to do so.
My workaround so far was:
- Create the new DevOps project "MyApp"
- Create a second repository "Dummy" there, because there must be at least one
- Delete the "MyApp" repository
- Create a new "MyApp" repository from Visual Studio
- Delete the "Dummy" repository
That works, but it's obviously stupid. There should be a straightforward, obvious way to do it.
I'm really confused I couldn't find a good answer online, as I believe this must be the second most common use case (after creating both a new DevOps project and a new VS project at the same time). Maybe I'm just terribly bad at googling.
In the image, under Other you have Existing Remote. You can use this and add the url to the repo that was created by default