From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:46:56 GMT Subject: Re: Problems setting up bare repository (git 1.5.3.3) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87bqbisae6.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Hi, On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Carl Worth wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:32:58 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > "master:master") does not exist there, and we do not create it > > unless you give a full refname that begins with refs/ (so that > > push can tell if you want to create a tag or a branch). > > And why is that? Well, if the OP had used "git push master" instead of "... master:master", it would have worked. I am unaware of any tutorial that suggests the latter, only of tutorials that suggest the former. Ciao, Dscho