From: david@lang.hm Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:34:19 GMT Subject: Re: unable to push Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080601183134.GA2623@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Jeff King wrote: > 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 >> 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 >