From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Raimund Bauer Subject: Re: problem pushing repository Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:38:04 +0200 Message-ID: <1182519484.6207.38.camel@localhost> References: <799406d60706211849h6e4fd1dbn487beab03fe1d79c@mail.gmail.com> <7v8xacbvf1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.pobox.com> <20070622022426.GA2961@bowser.ruder> <1182496916.6207.11.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Ruder , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 22 15:38:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I1jL3-0000Ta-E1 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:38:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755181AbXFVNiK (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:38:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754982AbXFVNiJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:38:09 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:43601 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754415AbXFVNiI (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:38:08 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2007 13:38:06 -0000 Received: from p5498A0C3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO [192.168.178.21]) [84.152.160.195] by mail.gmx.net (mp038) with SMTP; 22 Jun 2007 15:38:06 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20693823 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+gzlFUNUagVq2C9X+4zHir4hq2xArYdI+PsyiYMW dgXQJ0iYhifDrs In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 12:26 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Raimund Bauer wrote: > > > $ git push slcom test:test > > error: dst refspec test does not match any existing ref on the remote > > and does not start with refs/. > > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly > > error: failed to push to > > 'ray@softwarelandschaft.com:/home/ray/repos/drupal/multirate' > > This is a completely unrelated problem! > > It says that there is no branch named "test" on the remote side, and since > you could also want to push a tag, you have to say > > test:refs/heads/test > > here. However, I do not understand why you bother to use the :dst syntax > here, since your target name is _exactly_ the same as the source name. Why > not just > > git push slcom test because I had gotten the command line from bash-completion and since it worked with existing branches I saw no reason why it shouldn't work with new ones. will read the documentation next time ;-) > Ciao, > Dscho -- best regards Ray