Re: Cherry-picking to remote branches

>> > git checkout -b stable linux-stable/master
>> >
>> > git cherry-pick  b3b1eea69a   (a commit from linux-devel)
>> >
>> > git push linux-stable
>> >
>> > error: remote 'refs/heads/master' is not a strict subset of local ref
>> > 'refs/heads/master'. maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull
>> > first?
>> > error: failed to push to 'git://mysite.com/data/git/linux-stable.git'
>>
>> Since you are obviously only interested in pushing the stable branch, why
>> don't you
>>
>>         git push linux-stable stable
>>
>> Hm?
>>
>> If you do not specify which branches to push, "git push" will find all
>> refnames which are present both locally and remotely, and push those.
>> Evidently, however, your local "master" disagrees with the remote
>> "master".
>
> It is not entirely clear to me from the documentation.  So I was
> trying to cobble together something that seemed to make sense.  I want
> to work from the devel clone.  On occasion I want to cherry-pick
> changesets and push those to the stable branch.  I don't want
> everything that goes into devel to go into stable.