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Re: How to jump between two repositories ...

From
JFJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date
Dec 5, 2007, 06:14 UTC
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<20071205061425.GE11098@fieldses.org>
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:59:57PM -0800, g2 wrote:
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> Hello all,
>
> I am currently working on some code at the office that I also want to work 
> with at home. Seems like a good candidate for git. So I created a 
> repository at work and did a "git clone" at home. I've run into some 
> strange behaviour that I don't understand and would appreciate if someone 
> can clarify for me.
>
> Imagine this scenario. At work:
> git init
> edit test.c
> git add test.c
> git commit
>
> Then at home:
> git clone <work git url>
> edit test.c
> git commit -a
> git push

You'll be much happier at this point if you ssh into work and then git pull from home....

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> At this point, I wanted to push my changes back to my work repository so I 
> can continue work the next day. So at home, I did a git push. I expect that 
> my work repository has the newest material, but I find that when I do "git 
> status" at work the next day, it tells me that my test.c is "modified" and 
> has already staged it for commit. I need to do a "git reset" followed by 
> "git checkout" to update my work folder to the latest stuff.
>
> Totally different from my expectation of the repository knowing that it is 
> out of date and then kindly suggesting that I should do a "git update" of 
> some sort. What piece of understanding am I missing to properly "get" what 
> is going on here, and how am I supposed to properly work with this setup?
Git doesn't support pushing to any branch that's checked out somewhere.
--b.
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  1. g2Dec 5, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceDec 5, 2007
  3. J. Bruce FieldsDec 5, 2007
  4. Andreas EricssonDec 5, 2007
  5. g2Dec 5, 2007
  6. Andreas EricssonDec 5, 2007
  7. Väinö JärveläDec 5, 2007
  8. g2Dec 5, 2007
  9. Steven GrimmDec 5, 2007
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