# help on importing

2 messages from 2011-06-19 to 2011-06-19. Participants: Mihamina Rakotomandimby, Jakub Narebski.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/27655

## Mihamina Rakotomandimby, 2011-06-19 15:03

Subject: help on importing
Message-ID: <20110619180348.576ea06e.mihamina@bbs.mg>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20110619180348.576ea06e.mihamina%40bbs.mg

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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?

-- 
RMA.

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## Jakub Narebski, 2011-06-19 15:23

Subject: Re: help on importing
Message-ID: <m3sjr5u9qg.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3sjr5u9qg.fsf%40localhost.localdomain
In-Reply-To: <20110619180348.576ea06e.mihamina@bbs.mg>

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Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina@bbs.mg> writes:

> 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

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.
 
> 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".

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]

> 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 don't understand...

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
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

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