help on importing

Hi all,

I made several commits to a small local program. When I list them with "git log" I see them.

To publish my work, I choosed to sign in a forge (like github, google code,...). I choosed forge.ocamlcore.org

With my account creation, the forge automatically created an empty GIT repository.

I clone it with:
  git clone git+ssh://rakotomandimby@forge.ocamlcore.org/gitroot/ocaml-crypt/ocaml-crypt.git
  Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/ocaml-crypt/ocaml-crypt/.git/
  warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
I am surprised the initialisation is not in /tmp/ocaml-crypt/ocaml-crypt.git/.git/ 
as I pulled "ocaml-crypt.git".

Anyway...
When add+commit a file into "/tmp/ocaml-crypt/ocaml-crypt/", 
I get no errors, but when pushing:
  $ git push
  No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing.
  Perhaps you should specify a branch such as 'master'.
  fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I dont understand...

If I have success on this first simple steps, I could switch to the next level: Importing my local commits to that cloned repository ans then push that all.

I read several GIT documentation, but it seems I dont have the right keywords to have good results...

Would you help?

Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina@bbs.mg> writes:

Note that you don't have to choose _one_ place. With distributed version control systems you can interact with many remote repositories (though only one would be called "origin" and would be the default repository).

I for example push both to repo.or.cz and to GitHub.
 

It is Git convention to use 'project/.git' for a working repository, which working area (checked out files) in 'project/', while using 'project.git' for name of _bare_ repository, i.e. without working directory.

  project/.git  ==  project.git
  project/          [no workdir]

The default Git behavior is to push *only* matching branches. With this workflow you must push a branch explicitly first time. What you need to do is to use

  $ git push --all

to push all branches, or "git push origin HEAD" to push only current branch.

This behavior is configurable, either via `push.default` config variable, or via `remote.origin.push`.

HTH