Commit changes to remote repository

Being new to git I am probably not doing things correctly so pointers in the right direction would be useful.

What I want to do make changes on my laptop and commit them to a remote repository. Here is what I have done,

1. Created a repository on my remote linux host, in a folder of cource code,
by,

   git init
   git add *
   git commit

2. On my laptop I did a git clone pointing by ssh to the remote repo which
downloaded all the files to my local system.

3. I changed a file locally and did a commit.

4. I then wanted to update the remote repo with my change, which I did with
a git push, but that didn't work, getting this error,

    remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch:
refs/heads/master
    remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare
repository.......

What am I doing wrong?

I was following the tutorial at http://book.git-scm.com/3_distributed_workflows.html

I did search for this issue in this list but didn't understand the responses.

Rupert

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:29:49PM -0800, ruperty wrote:

You're trying to push to a non-bare repository and change the currently active branch, which can cause problems, so git isn't letting you. There's an explanation of bare and non-bare at http://bare-vs-nonbare.gitrecipes.de/ but the short and sweet is that you should init the repo you want to use as the central point with --bare and do modifications locally and then push there.

   cmn

Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:

An alternative is to push to a temporary, non-checked-out branch.

I sometimes do

  laptop$ git push desktop HEAD:incomming

and then

  desktop$ git merge incomming

The push does not disturb the worktree on the desktop, and the merge is done manually on the receiving machine.

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

Or more generally, treat such a push as if you are pulling in the opposite direction. So in this example,

you pretend as if you are running "git pull" on your desktop in order to integrate the work done on your laptop. If you did

    desktop$ git pull laptop

you would store where the branches on the laptop are in the remote tracking branches for "laptop" remote in your desktop's repository.

So a good way to simulate that would be:

    laptop$ git push desktop master:refs/remotes/laptop/master

and then run:

    desktop$ git merge laptop/master