From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 19:19:36 GMT
Subject: Re: git push won't push to a local branch
Message-ID: <20080504191936.GA3119@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <7f9d599f0805041149w1955138crf269853196391e51@mail.gmail.com>

On 2008.05.04 11:49:38 -0700, Geoffrey Irving wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There's an asymmetry between push and pull that seems unnecessary:
> pull can pull from local branches, but push can't push to them.  Is
> there a reason for this asymmetry?
> 
> In more detail, if I have a working copy with two branches, local and
> master, I can use git pull to pull changes from master to local:
> 
> % git checkout local
> % git pull . master
> ... pulls changes from master to local branch
> 
> If I make a change in local and try to do the reverse with git push,
> it gives a confusing non-error message and doesn't do anything:
> 
> % git checkout local
> % git rm scratch/pcomm.h
> % git commit
> % git push . master
> Everything up-to-date

You're pushing master to master ;-) Try "git push . local:master".

Björn