I have a basic question on my first attempt to deploy a Node.js app on Google Cloud Services using a Compute Engine Virtual Machine.
I have created a Google Cloud Repository of my GitHub code. I have tried to clone this repo onto my virtual machine. When I do it, I show the repo name, but that directory is empty.
Am I supposed to have the actual files inside this directory, or is it some link to the Google Cloud Repo and it only appears empty? If the files are supposed to physically be in this directory, that could explain why I can't get my startup script to run.
And if they are supposed to be in there, I'm not sure why they don't clone but it could be because my path to default code GitHub is messed up.
Thanks in advance. I have been stuck on this for too long.
EDIT:
I used: I used gcloud source repos clone github_sleepywakes_thunderroost --project=imposing-timer-334919
to clone my repo
When I use it again, I get this message:
WARNING: Repository "github_sleepywakes_thunderroost" in project "imposing-timer-334919" is a mirror. Pushing to this clone will have no effect. Instead, clone the mirrored repository directly with
$ git clone https://github.com/SleepyWakes/ThunderRoost
ERROR: (gcloud.source.repos.clone) Directory path specified exists and is not empty
But of course this is the second time I have tried to clone this repo.