I have a computer that points to two connected Git repositories. It s a web site, and the repos are on remote drives (on servers) that I have mapped in Windows. The live production site is on G:webroot, and the development site is on H:webroot with the live site as the source of the dev. So I make changes on Dev, test, commit, then push them to Live. I m using SourceTree as a Git GUI. (NOTE: assume I m getting specific terminology wrong here. I hope I m getting the point across okay.)
Now I have a new desktop computer. Specifically, I started with a laptop, but am moving my main Git setup to a desktop. (I will continue to use the laptop for other things. If I can figure out how to also access these repos from the laptop that would be gravy.)
I ve seen lots of Q/A that talks about moving the repository, and you either clone or just plain move the entire folder. But in my case, I m not moving the repos at all, I m just trying to get SourceTree to connect me properly to the existing ones. I did copy over the Atlassian folders from %appdata%, and that may have been my mistake -- not sure.
If I enter the path as a local repo, I get the following:
git status failed with code 128: fatal: detected dubious ownership of repository at " (path).
It talks about adding an exception to my Git config, but I don t really understand what that would actually be doing, or if it s the right thing to do. Looks as though it s just shutting off an error alert(?).
Any help would be appreciated. It s one of those cases where I struggle to even look it up because I don t know the right terminology to look for.