Linking or adding a remote origin to our Workbench repository present in our desktop and syncing the contents using the Git GUI is performed as follows:
- Open up your Git GUI window for our
Workbenchrepository from the desktop. - Click on the Add option from the Remote menu in your GUI window.
- This opens up the Add New Remote window where we enter the following details:
Field name
Value
Name
originLocation
https://your_bitbucket_repo_identity_here/online_workbench.git
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- This is shown in the following screenshot; click on the Add button:
- We have
now successfully added a remote to our
Workbenchrepository. - To push our code to the
online_workbenchrepository, go to the same Remote menu and select the option Push, which will lead you to the Push Branches window as shown in the following screenshot:
- By default,
master will be selected under Source Branches, and origin will be selected in the listbox for the Remote option under Destination Repository. Leave it as it is, click on the Push button, and wait for some time; it should lead you to a screen where you will be prompted for your Bitbucket account password to proceed as shown in the following screenshot:
- Upon
successful authentication, your content will be synced with the
online_workbenchrepository, which can be understood from the following screenshot:
It says that the master branch of your local
Workbenchrepository is synced with the master branch of theonline_workbenchrepository (more on branches in later chapters).
We just
created a remote link for our Workbench repository with the online_workbench repository and pushed our files to it making them available online, thus opening the door for a distributed file system, using GUI mode.
Now if you open your Bitbucket account in your browser you will see history updated on your dashboard as shown in the following screenshot:
This means you can continue your work from anywhere if you have access to a computer with Git and your application software installed on it (it's Microsoft Word in this case as we are dealing with a Word document).
Go ahead and browse through the different tabs available to make yourself comfortable with it. Once you are done with it, let's move to the next half to see how we can resume our work form distributed locations.