Re: can't create a branch on remote

From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 9, 2009, 21:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20091009215436.GA21017@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <17cb70ee0910091435l4c4d1736hf4d403a2fe6331a2@mail.gmail.com>

On 2009.10.09 23:35:03 +0200, Auguste Mome wrote:

> # git branch mylocal26217  v2.6.21.7

This automatically peels the v2.6.21.7 tag to get the commit object, and creates the new branch head, referencing that commit.

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> # 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

This didn't peel the tag, because you might actually want the remote ref to reference the tag, not the commit referenced by the tag. So you tried to create a branch head that would reference a tag, and that is not allowed. To peel the tag you can use: v2.6.21.7^0 v2.6.21.7^{commit} v2.6.21.7^{}

The first two ensure that you actually get a commit object or an error, the last one just peels the tag until it finds a non-tag object.

So:
git push /home/user/dev/git/linux-2.6 \
	v2.6.21.7^0:refs/heads/new_feature_name26217

should do the trick.

Though I don't see why you would create a branch like that. Usually, I'd expect you to create new_feature_name26217 locally, work on it, and then just push that branch head, instead of creating that rather pointless branch head remotely.

Björn