Setup git repo on onedrive.

setup-git-repo-on-onedrive.txt

Go to onedrive folder in your pc and create a folder for git repository.
Usually onedrive resides in `C:\Users\%username%\OneDrive`

Open GitBash

cd ~/OneDrive
mkdir git
cd git 
mkdir myproject
cd myproject
git init
git config --bool core.bare true



Now go to your workspace.. generally this will be any folder in your PC, outside of OneDrive.. 
Never create your workspace in onedrive or it will save all the files from node_modules.

Lets say worspace is in D:\workspace

Open GitBash

cd D:/workspace
git clone ~/OneDrive/git/myproject
cd myproject
touch testfile.txt
git add .
git commit -m "initial commit"
git push origin master


Congratulation.. you have a private git repository on cloud.

I got hung up on this for a while.

If you are starting from a working copy you copied to OneDrive you might get an error. Git doesn't like pushing changes to working copies because push only updates the repo, not the working files.

Convert the working copy to a bare repo by moving everything except the .git directory to a backup location. (Delete them if you're brave.) In the now mostly empty project root run the ... core.bare ... command from the OP. Now you can clone from and push to the "remote" repo.

Hello, I don't know what was the goal in the first post, but the problem I reported is a condition that started only after the 08-09-2023 Windows 11 update. So, it is a bug created by that release.

In my case ANY .git folder in OneDrive is corrupted after the sync finnishes, so no matter how you create your Git repository, it will be corrupted after OneDrive syncs it with the cloud.

Such a problem does not happen in a Windows 10 computer I have connected to the very same OneDrive account. If a create my Git repository in my W10 computer, the repository will continue to work until I access it from my W11 computer.