# problem with branches

2 messages from 2008-06-02 to 2008-06-02. Participants: Alf Clement, Jeff King.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13761

## Alf Clement, 2008-06-02 10:14

Subject: problem with branches
Message-ID: <556d90580806020314u7ba60af7kc0176a1867ba32fb@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/556d90580806020314u7ba60af7kc0176a1867ba32fb%40mail.gmail.com

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Hi all,

I created 4 branches with a remote repository on a server.
I've changed some files locally, committed and now try to push... but
it fails with hook declined.
Now the status:
$ git pull -v
From git://XXXX/YY
 = [up to date]      TEST       -> origin/TEST
 = [up to date]      master     -> origin/master
 = [up to date]      v1.03      -> origin/v1.03
 = [up to date]      v2.07      -> origin/v2.07
 = [up to date]      v3.11      -> origin/v3.11
Already up-to-date.

$ git push -v
Pushing to git://XXXX/YY
GIT TRANPORT
Looking up XXXX ... done.
Counting objects: 31, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (14/14), done.
Writing objects: 100% (21/21), 2.02 KiB, done.
Total 21 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0)
To git://XXXX/YY
 = [up to date]      TEST -> TEST
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined)
 ! [remote rejected] v3.11 -> v3.11 (hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git://XXXX/YY'

I also get a warning when moving between branches:
$ git checkout v3.11
Switched to branch "v3.11"
Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/v3.11' by 1 commit.

$ git checkout master
Switched to branch "master"
Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/master' by 2 commits.

Any ideas how to recover from here?
The git-daemon seems to run fine, as I can commit and push from
another test project.
It would be nice if there were more clean failure messages from the
daemon...(Enhancement)

Thanks,
Alf

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## Jeff King, 2008-06-02 17:23

Subject: Re: problem with branches
Message-ID: <20080602172346.GA18945@sigill.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080602172346.GA18945%40sigill.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <556d90580806020314u7ba60af7kc0176a1867ba32fb@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:14:07PM +0200, Alf Clement wrote:

>  = [up to date]      TEST -> TEST
>  ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined)
>  ! [remote rejected] v3.11 -> v3.11 (hook declined)
> error: failed to push some refs to 'git://XXXX/YY'

OK. So your "update" hook returned failure. What's in the remote's
.git/hooks/update?

> I also get a warning when moving between branches:
> $ git checkout v3.11
> Switched to branch "v3.11"
> Your branch is ahead of the tracked remote branch 'origin/v3.11' by 1 commit.

This is fine; it's just reminding you that you have commits that could
be pushed.

-Peff

```