Re: Commit changes to remote repository

From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date: Jan 14, 2012, 11:31 UTC
Message-ID: <20120114113141.GG2850@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To: <1326486589088-7185551.post@n2.nabble.com>

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:29:49PM -0800, ruperty wrote:

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> Being new to git I am probably not doing things correctly so pointers in the
> right direction would be useful.
> 
> What I want to do make changes on my laptop and commit them to a remote
> repository. Here is what I have done,
> 
> 1. Created a repository on my remote linux host, in a folder of cource code,
> by,
> 
>    git init
>    git add *
>    git commit
> 
> 2. On my laptop I did a git clone pointing by ssh to the remote repo which
> downloaded all the files to my local system.
> 
> 3. I changed a file locally and did a commit.
> 
> 4. I then wanted to update the remote repo with my change, which I did with
> a git push, but that didn't work, getting this error,
> 
>     remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch:
> refs/heads/master[K
>     remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare
> repository[K.......
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

You're trying to push to a non-bare repository and change the currently active branch, which can cause problems, so git isn't letting you. There's an explanation of bare and non-bare at http://bare-vs-nonbare.gitrecipes.de/ but the short and sweet is that you should init the repo you want to use as the central point with --bare and do modifications locally and then push there.

cmn