Cherry-picking to remote branches

From: Sean Kelley <svk.sweng@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 6, 2007, 14:09 UTC
Message-ID: <a2e879e50707060709oc9fe8b3k8e594f1cb6e10437@mail.gmail.com>

I have been having trouble with the following workflow. I am trying to push changes to a remote from a branch that is tracking it.

git clone git://mysite.com/data/git/linux-devel.git linux-devel

cd linux-devel

git remote add -m master -f linux-stable git://mysite.com/data/git/linux-stable.git

git branch -r

  linux-stable/HEAD
  linux-stable/master
  origin/HEAD
  origin/master

git checkout -b stable linux-stable/master

git cherry-pick  b3b1eea69a   (a commit from linux-devel)

git push linux-stable

error: remote 'refs/heads/master' is not a strict subset of local ref 'refs/heads/master'. maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull first? error: failed to push to 'git://mysite.com/data/git/linux-stable.git'

Thanks for your help,

Sean