How to "connect" a git repository without cloning it first?
<p>I got a git repo on bitbucket that was used a few months ago for a php application.</p>

<p>I now have a new server and I would like to connect the local folder of this app on that repository.  Challenge for me is that the local version is now more up to date than the bitbucket version.  I'm newbie on git, and instructions I find always imply that we first clone the repo.  I do not want to overwrite the local files first.</p>