Synchronising issues: variants of the same experiments in different folders

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Ok so this one is a bit hard to describe:

I am building a sandbox environment to experiment with completion URL passing.
For my actual study I have 4 different studies that I need to present in a Latin square design.
But rather than messing up the existing experiments, I wanted to create 4 variants of an extremely simple thing and see whether I can get the completion URL dependant open expInfo[“Group”] to work.

So I created a simple experiment that just shows the letter A and then ends
I then saved the same experiment again in a separate folder under a different name, and changed the text it shows to B
You see where this is going -=-= I have versions A, B, C, D of this very simple thing.

Then I added the JS code to the A experiment and synched it to Pavlovia.
When I tried creating projects for B C & D, I ran into all sorts of problems.

I have been banging my head against this all day – with the repository on GitHub not having any entries, GitHub complaining about the local root, etc.

So here is what I currently have:

A folder structure where there are 4 folders (entitled A, B, C, D) inside a parent folder (called URL_redirect Sandbox).
Inside each of the respective folders lives the corresponding .psyexp file (e.g. A.psyexp, B.psyexp, etc).

I then have deleted all the local html folders, and also removed all the associated projects on Pavlocoa. I then created a new project for A
This seemed to have worked for A
But as soon as I try to move to B, it automatically lists it as A on Pavlovia.
I can create a new project on Pavlovia, but when I want to change the local root to the B folder, it complains that the folder is inside a folder and that GitHub does not allow that.

Where am I going wrong and what is the process to set this up?

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If you create the new project by copying the local files, you need to delete the hidden .git folder.

If you fork the experiment on Pavlovia I think you have to fork it to a group and then back to yourself – I believe you can’t just fork it to another copy yourself.

In fact, I’m a bit unclear about the whole forking process – I’d hope that if you make a change in the original there’s an option to update the child but I’m not sure if that works.

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Thanks @wakecarter – deleting the hidden .git file did the trick!