From: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
To: Geoffrey Irving <irving@naml.us>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git push won't push to a local branch
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 21:19:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080504191936.GA3119@atjola.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f9d599f0805041149w1955138crf269853196391e51@mail.gmail.com>
On 2008.05.04 11:49:38 -0700, Geoffrey Irving wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There's an asymmetry between push and pull that seems unnecessary:
> pull can pull from local branches, but push can't push to them. Is
> there a reason for this asymmetry?
>
> In more detail, if I have a working copy with two branches, local and
> master, I can use git pull to pull changes from master to local:
>
> % git checkout local
> % git pull . master
> ... pulls changes from master to local branch
>
> If I make a change in local and try to do the reverse with git push,
> it gives a confusing non-error message and doesn't do anything:
>
> % git checkout local
> % git rm scratch/pcomm.h
> % git commit
> % git push . master
> Everything up-to-date
You're pushing master to master ;-) Try "git push . local:master".
Björn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-04 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-04 18:49 git push won't push to a local branch Geoffrey Irving
2008-05-04 19:19 ` Björn Steinbrink [this message]
2008-05-04 20:00 ` Geoffrey Irving
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