Re: unable to push
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- david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm>
- Date
- Jun 1, 2008, 18:34 UTC
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- <alpine.DEB.1.10.0806011133050.15294@asgard.lang.hm>
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- <20080601183134.GA2623@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 11:28:39AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > >>> I'm not understanding that, either. You not only created localmaster, >>> but you deleted master. Did you maybe do a "git branch -m"? >> >> in the public repo I had never created a 'master' branch. I had just done >> a clone, setup git daemon, and pushed to it. > > Did you mean "init" here instead of clone? The clone should have created > at least one branch (generally master, but depending on the current > branch of the cloned repo).
no, it was definantly a clone, and it did not create a master branch (at least not one that showed up with git branch -a)
David Lang
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>> at some point several days later I found that my push didn't work and that
>> I wasn't on any branch in the public repo. in reading the man page for git
>> branch I saw the --track option, so I created the localmaster branch to
>> try and get things working.
>
> Ah, ok. That makes sense. The right fix was to just manually specify the
> refspec the first time ("git push public master") after which you could
> just do "git push public" if you wanted.
>
> -Peff
>