Re: problem pushing repository

[Raimund Bauer <ray007@gmx.net>]

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