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Re: help with git usage

From
Matt Graham <mdg149@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 30, 2008, 12:02 UTC
Message-ID
<1c5969370804300502obbc5a63v4c2c1a1175084237@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
>
>  > I've been trying to use git for awhile now, (and I've read a lot of
>  > documentation, though maybe my
>  > comprehension has not been high enough) but there are several operations which
>  > I
>  > can't figure out:
>  >
>  > 1) After cloning a repository from work at home, making some changes and
>  > committing them,
>  > I use "git push" to push them back to the work repository.  The changes seem
>  > to make it to the
>  > work repository (I see the commit message in git log), but I can't figure out
>  > how to get the
>  > changes into the working set at work.  (evidently not merge, checkout or reset
>  > -- seems like it
>  > should be merge, but)
>
>  You shouldn't push to a non-bare repository.

Is there any reason it wouldn't be appropriate to make git refuse to push to non-bare repositories?

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Message 8 of 12 in “help with git usage”
  1. Daniel QuinlanApr 29, 2008
  2. Daniel BarkalowApr 29, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiApr 30, 2008
  4. Daniel QuinlanMay 7, 2008
  5. Julian PhillipsMay 8, 2008
  6. Dirk SüsserottMay 8, 2008
  7. Jakub NarebskiMay 8, 2008
  8. Matt GrahamApr 30, 2008
  9. Andreas EricssonApr 30, 2008
  10. Richard QuirkApr 30, 2008
  11. Jakub NarebskiApr 30, 2008
  12. Richard QuirkApr 30, 2008

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