Re: unable to push

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 11:28:39AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:

>> I'm not understanding that, either. You not only created localmaster,
>> but you deleted master. Did you maybe do a "git branch -m"?
>
> in the public repo I had never created a 'master' branch. I had just done  
> a clone, setup git daemon, and pushed to it.

Did you mean "init" here instead of clone? The clone should have created
at least one branch (generally master, but depending on the current
branch of the cloned repo).

> at some point several days later I found that my push didn't work and that 
> I wasn't on any branch in the public repo. in reading the man page for git 
> branch I saw the --track option, so I created the localmaster branch to  
> try and get things working.

Ah, ok. That makes sense. The right fix was to just manually specify the
refspec the first time ("git push public master") after which you could
just do "git push public" if you wanted.

-Peff