From: Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>
To: Michael Wookey <michaelwookey@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Newbie / git / gitosis question
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:46:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26ae428a0908260246p71f16b19y5e9d9d6ed63b61b4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2e97e800908260238p28bd6d27o6377f395df32b03c@mail.gmail.com>
Mmm...
I think I see what's happening - vaguely - but I'm not sure I understand why!
Why does gitosis require you to be this specific? Why can't I just do
a 'straight' push?
Howard
2009/8/26 Michael Wookey <michaelwookey@gmail.com>:
> 2009/8/26 Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>:
>> I've been working away at Gitosis and it's mostly fair enough but
>> there's one bit that's unclear to me...
>>
>> git push origin master:refs/heads/master
>>
>> Would somebody kindly explain (or point to docs) what
>> refs/heads/master means? How is this different from just 'git push
>> origin master' or even 'git push origin master:master'?
>>
>> Any insights much appreciated.
>
> You might find some insight here - http://progit.org/book/ch9-5.html
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-26 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-26 9:27 Newbie / git / gitosis question Howard Miller
2009-08-26 9:38 ` Michael Wookey
2009-08-26 9:46 ` Howard Miller [this message]
2009-08-26 11:54 ` Graham Perks
2009-08-26 15:56 ` Jeff King
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