From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Include a git-push example for creating a remote branch
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 01:01:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070906050127.GS18160@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoodggo0l2.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> wrote:
> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> > Many users get confused when `git push origin master:foo` works
> > when foo already exists on the remote repository but are confused
> > when foo doesn't exist as a branch and this form does not create
> > the branch foo.
>
> Hmm, what _does_ it do in that case...?
error: dst refspec experimental does not match any existing ref on the remote and does not start with refs/.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 5:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 4:44 [PATCH] Include a git-push example for creating a remote branch Shawn O. Pearce
2007-09-06 4:54 ` Miles Bader
2007-09-06 5:01 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-09-06 5:57 ` Miles Bader
2007-09-06 6:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-06 15:48 ` Carl Worth
2007-09-06 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-06 10:50 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-09-06 14:57 ` Kristian Høgsberg
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