Local branch to remote branch translation

What am I doing wrong in this sequence?

In my local repo I have two remotes:

jonsmirl@terra:~/mpc5200b$ git remote dreamhost linus

I create branches off from these using: git branch -b m29 linus/master

I update them with stg rebase linus/master

My repo has a .git/packed-refs file

When I push this repo to a remote server my local branches get renamed.

jonsmirl@terra:~/mpc5200b$ git push dreamhost
To ssh://jonsmirl1@git.digispeaker.com/~/mpc5200b.git
 * [new branch]      m24 -> linus/m24
 * [new branch]      m25 -> linus/m25
 * [new branch]      m26 -> linus/m26
 * [new branch]      m28 -> linus/m28
 * [new branch]      m29 -> linus/m29
Counting objects: 619084, done.
...

So one the remote server I see this:

[daedalus]$ git remote
[daedalus]$ git branch
[daedalus]$ git branch -r
  linus/m24
  linus/m25
  linus/m26
  linus/m28
  linus/m29
[daedalus]$

With the repo in this state at the remote server gitweb thinks the repo is empty. Why are these branches getting renamed?

git head is in use on both ends.