Re: Cherry-picking to remote branches

> Na Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 09:39:47AM -0500, Sean Kelley <svk.sweng@gmail.com> pisal(a):
> >> > 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'
> >>
> >> Since you are obviously only interested in pushing the stable branch, why
> >> don't you
> >>
> >>         git push linux-stable stable
> >>
> >> Hm?
> >>
> >> If you do not specify which branches to push, "git push" will find all
> >> refnames which are present both locally and remotely, and push those.
> >> Evidently, however, your local "master" disagrees with the remote
> >> "master".
> >
> > It is not entirely clear to me from the documentation.  So I was
> > trying to cobble together something that seemed to make sense.  I want
> > to work from the devel clone.  On occasion I want to cherry-pick
> > changesets and push those to the stable branch.  I don't want
> > everything that goes into devel to go into stable.
>
> what about this?
>
>         git push linux-stable stable:master

>
> VMiklos
>
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