How to connect a local GIT repository to a remote GIT repository hosted in GitLab?

Jaime Stuardo 51

Hello,

I have created a VS2019 solution and a local GIT repository for it. Then I created a GitLab repository. Finally, In local repository configuration, I have added the remote connection.

After all of that, and try to commit, VS2019 tells me that I am not connected to remote repository so I always can commit the source code to local repository. To push to remote repository I have to use the external Git GUI tool.

On the other hand, I have other VS2019 projects that I could connect using this same procedure, and other by cloning the remote repository.

It is really frustrating that Microsoft thinks that all people uses its own version control system such as Azure DevOps or Team Foundation Server so generally it is a real pain when trying to connect to other kind of repository.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks
Jaime

Tianyu Sun-MSFT 28,341 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2020-09-28T04:37:58.107+00:00

Hello Jaime, did you mean Visual Studio 2019 could not connect to remote repo in GitLab for some projects, but worked well for other projects by using this procedure(add the remote connection > … > commit)? Please try to update VS 2019 to the latest version and try to reconnect(refresh) the repository. Besides, did you try to install and use "GitLab Extension for Visual Studio" extension in VS 2019?
Jaime Stuardo 51 Reputation points

2020-09-28T10:53:32.883+00:00

Hello, thanks for your answer.

I have VS2019 updated, and I have seen in Synchronization option the following message in the push confirmation part:

"The current branch does not keep track of a remote branch"

It seems that is the problem. How can I connect local brach to remote branch?

On the other hand, I have a notebook with the same VS2019 version and I could clone the project and I started working on it without any problem. That is why I have not installed any external GIt extension because VS2019 is already compatible with GIT. The only problem I always have is to connect an existing VS2019 solution with an existing gitLab project.

Sometimes, to avoid such problems, I create an empty project in GitLab and then I just clone it using VS2019, but in this case, the project was already created in both GitLab and in VS2019.

Regards
Jaime
Jaime Stuardo 51 Reputation points

2020-09-28T11:05:38.963+00:00

Hello again. Fianlly, I used "git branch -u" command to connect both branches. I don't know if this can be done directly from VS2019.

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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 28,341 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2020-09-29T09:13:15.867+00:00
Hello Jaime,

Thank you for explaining and sharing more information with me. Does the “connect both branches” mean there are some contents (like changes in Project A) and you’d like to confirm these changes and write(merge) them into Project B(remote branch)? Or you want to push the local branch to GitLab as a new branch?

If you want to confirm changes and write(merge) them into remote branch, I’m afraid you need to use git command. And, actually, in Visual Studio, we usually try to clone remote repo, then modify the file(project), after that confirm changes > Sync. Or, if the project was cloned to local repo, and before modify something, we usually use pull to synchronize. But for a newly created(existed) branch, you may need to use git command.

If you want to push local branch to GitLab as a new branch, you can try to click the Push Branch option from Team Explorer > Home > Branches > find your branch and right-click it > Push Branch.

Sincerely,
Tianyu

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