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Re: can't create a branch on remote

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AMAuguste Mome <augustmome@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 12, 2009, 07:19 UTC
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OK thanks I'm going to try this out, let me ask a question because it
sounds my work flow is not good.
I don't want to push the work done in my local branch to head/master,
I want to push this work into
"long-live" branch of a central repository, which belongs to "admin",
and eventually this branch does not exist yet.
my-central-repo: master, origin = linux-2.6.git
                        branch1, branched at v2.6.21.7
                        branch2, branched at v2.6.21.7
-> I want (not admin) people to clone my-repo and work on branch1
and/or branch2.
-> I want some people to add a new branch3 at v2.6.21.7 into my-central-repo.
    (This will not happen very often, can be restricted to admin)
Maybe in this case it is common to define more "public" repositories:
 repo-branch1/ and repo-branch2/
I guess people could then clone repo-branchX and push the work done,
and up to owner of my-central-repo
to merge repo-branchX/master into my-central-repo/branchX?
Auguste.
2009/10/10 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
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> Auguste Mome <augustmome@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have two repositories  /home/user/linux and /home/user/dev/linux,
>> same user on same machine.
>> Here is how I create a local branch at v2.6.21.7 in /home/user/dev/linux,
>> #pwd
>> /home/user/dev/linux
>> # git remote add l2621
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.21.y.git
>> # git fetch l2621
>> # git branch mylocal26217  v2.6.21.7
>>
>> Now I would like to do the same from the other repository /home/user/linux:
>> # pwd
>> /home/user/linux
>> # git remote add other /home/guerin/dev/git/linux-2.6
>> # git fetch other
>> # git push /home/user/dev/git/linux-2.6
>>     v2.6.21.7:refs/heads/new_feature_name26217
>> Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
>> error: Trying to write non-commit object
>
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>> 170684ef0557d4b711a86595d31dcbebcb9d4ba2 to branch
>> refs/heads/new_feature_name26217
>> To /home/user/dev/git/linux-2.6
>>  ! [remote rejected] v2.6.21.7 -> new_feature_name26217 (failed to write)
>> error: failed to push some refs to '/home/user/dev/git/linux-2.6'
>>
>> Maybe something to configure to authorize the creation of branch?
>
> You can't push tag to branch.
>
>
> I'm not sure if what you are trying to do makes sense at all, but the
> commit pointed by v2.6.21.7 is v2.6.21.7^{}
>
> --
> Jakub Narebski
> Poland
> ShadeHawk on #git
>
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  1. Auguste MomeOct 9, 2009
  2. Björn SteinbrinkOct 9, 2009
  3. Jakub NarebskiOct 9, 2009
  4. Auguste MomeOct 12, 2009

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