From: chris Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 08:47:39 GMT Subject: error with $ git push origin HEAD:newbranch Message-ID: $ git push origin HEAD:newbranch error: unable to push to unqualified destination: newbranch The destination refspec neither matches an existing ref on the remote nor begins with refs/, and we are unable to guess a prefix based on the source ref. error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://example.com/srv/git/project.git' This worked previously[1]. Local git version 1.7.5, remote git version 1.7.2.3. 1. I recently upgraded locally from 1.7.4.x