From: "Kristian Høgsberg" <krh@redhat.com>
To: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
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, 06 Sep 2007 10:57:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1189090638.3423.0.camel@hinata.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A3C344D0-B2A0-44DC-BCBD-3B2C1EBD24B1@wincent.com>
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 12:50 +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> El 6/9/2007, a las 6:44, Shawn O. Pearce escribió:
>
> > +git push origin master:refs/heads/experimental::
> > + Create the branch `experimental` in the `origin` repository
> > + by copying the current `master` branch. This form is usually
> > + needed to create a new branch in the remote repository as
> > + there is no `experimental` branch to match.
> > +
>
> A welcome addition; I was puzzled the first time I tried this myself
> too.
Indeed, but a even better approach might be to expand the error message
with a sugestion on how to create a branch.
Kristian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 14:59 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
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 [this message]
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