Github Update Repository

Question

So I had a repository X which I initialized using GIT init and then committed several changes into it for a while.

Few months back, I removed my GIT folder from the directory (completely deleted it) for some reason. (i.e hidden git folder inside my root folder).

Today, I did some tweaks and wanted to update those changes into my repo but since that git folder doesn't exist, I again initialized through git commit and created a new repo.

Now, I want to update the repo on github I used previously for X with this new repo. Is there a way I can do it?

I tried going through github for solution but was unable to find anything helpful

Answer 1

You can add th remote repo at github with git remote add and then do a git merge --allow-unrelated-histories if you really want to merge.

If you only made small changes (one or few commits) it will probably better to clone the github repo to a clean directory and then manually merge you changes to that new clone and commit the files again and push all your changes. That way you history will stay clean.