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Seth Warner
Seth Warner
5,348 Points
Posted by Seth Warner
Seth Warner
5,348 Points

I'm trying to establish a remote connect for the first time from my laptop to my git repository on Github..

So I believe this is the address 

git remote add origin https://github.com/TheC0mposer/MyFirstRepository.git

And for some reason I recieved this error 

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

Either you forgot to do the git init command, it failed for some reason, or you moved away from the directory you were working in.

Seth Warner
Seth Warner
5,348 Points
Seth Warner
Seth Warner
5,348 Points

got it, I was suppose to use git clone followed by the address, followed by the name I want it saved as on my machine.