From: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:57:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Include a git-push example for creating a remote branch
Message-ID: <1189090638.3423.0.camel@hinata.boston.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <A3C344D0-B2A0-44DC-BCBD-3B2C1EBD24B1@wincent.com>

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 12:50 +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> El 6/9/2007, a las 6:44, Shawn O. Pearce escribió:
> 
> > +git push origin master:refs/heads/experimental::
> > +	Create the branch `experimental` in the `origin` repository
> > +	by copying the current `master` branch.  This form is usually
> > +	needed to create a new branch in the remote repository as
> > +	there is no `experimental` branch to match.
> > +
> 
> A welcome addition; I was puzzled the first time I tried this myself  
> too.

Indeed, but a even better approach might be to expand the error message
with a sugestion on how to create a branch.

Kristian