Git point local repo to remote

Question

I have existing project: my-project on both DEV and QA. Now I'm thinking of creating git repo so I can push the changes from DEV so QA can pull the changes. I don't want to delete my-project from QA and clone my-project from DEV to QA. So I am planning to do this:

On Dev:

$cd ~/my-project
$git init
$git add .
$git commit -m "My project"
$git remote add --track master origin ~/my-project
$git push

On QA:

$ cd ~/my-project
$git init
$git remote add origin ssh://Dev:~/my-project
$git pull 

Will this work? Or do I miss anything? Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Answer 1

The idea is good (provided ssh://Dev does work)

All that is missing is a refspec in order to instruct your QA repo to fetch something (as explained in "How to understand remote “origin” fetch setting in .git/config file?"):

git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*"

You can then do a git fetch, and then create a new local master branch

git switch -c master

That will track automatically origin/master, using the new (Git 2.23+) git switch command (see "Confused by git checkout").

From there, you can git pull at any time.