From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:58:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git push issue
Message-ID: <7v4q2h6ucs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <6d6a94c50603020147l450d1cdfp1bc1747dc79189ce@mail.gmail.com>

Aubrey <aubreylee@gmail.com> writes:

> aubrey@linux:~/public_html/u-boot.git> git push
> 10.99.22.20:/home/aubrey/public_html/my-git.git master

> error: src refspec master does not match any.
> error: dst refspec master does not match any existing ref on the
> remote and does not start with refs/.

The error message tells you that

 (1) directory you are in (u-boot.git) does not have a ref that
     matches "master".  Do you have the "master" branch?

 (2) remote repository at 10.99.22.20:/home/.../my-git.git does
     not have a ref that matches "master".

The problem on your end must be fixed first.  Then once you have
the master branch in u-boot.git directory (I presume
~/public_html/u-boot.git/.git/refs/heads/master would be the
file you would need to see), then the problem on the other end
needs to be dealt with.

If you are creating a branch over there afresh, you need to
spell it out, like this:

	$ git push 10.99..:.../my-git.git master:refs/heads/master

After you have done that once (hence creating
/home/aubrey/public_html/my-git.git/.git/refs/heads/master file
over there), you can do the command line I quoted at the
beginning of this message.