Re: can't create a branch on remote

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 9, 2009, 22:08 UTC
Message-ID: <m363aogqz9.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <17cb70ee0910091435l4c4d1736hf4d403a2fe6331a2@mail.gmail.com>

Auguste Mome <augustmome@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi,
> I have two repositories  /home/user/linux and /home/user/dev/linux,
> same user on same machine.
> Here is how I create a local branch at v2.6.21.7 in /home/user/dev/linux,
> #pwd
> /home/user/dev/linux
> # git remote add l2621
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.21.y.git
> # git fetch l2621
> # git branch mylocal26217  v2.6.21.7
> 
> Now I would like to do the same from the other repository /home/user/linux:
> # pwd
> /home/user/linux
> # git remote add other /home/guerin/dev/git/linux-2.6
> # git fetch other
> # git push /home/user/dev/git/linux-2.6
>     v2.6.21.7:refs/heads/new_feature_name26217
> Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
> error: Trying to write non-commit object

  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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> 170684ef0557d4b711a86595d31dcbebcb9d4ba2 to branch
> refs/heads/new_feature_name26217
> To /home/user/dev/git/linux-2.6
>  ! [remote rejected] v2.6.21.7 -> new_feature_name26217 (failed to write)
> error: failed to push some refs to '/home/user/dev/git/linux-2.6'
> 
> Maybe something to configure to authorize the creation of branch?

You can't push tag to branch.

I'm not sure if what you are trying to do makes sense at all, but the commit pointed by v2.6.21.7 is v2.6.21.7^{}

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Jakub Narebski
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