Re: Cherry-picking to remote branches

["Sean Kelley" <svk.sweng@gmail.com>]

On 7/6/07, Sean Kelley <svk.sweng@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been having trouble with the following workflow.  I am trying
> to push changes to a remote from a branch that is tracking it.


Is there a better way to do this?  Basically I want to push from the
branch to the remote.  But it doesn't seem to work at least without
pushing the branch itself as a new head to the remote.  Perhaps the
better way to do it is to have two different directories:

1) clone the linux-devel.git and have a read-only remote to
linux-stable to fetch changes and cherry-pick.
2) clone the linux-stable.git and have a read-only remote to
linux-devel to fetch changes and cherry-pick

So you would just cd to the specific one you want to work with.

Sean
>
> git clone git://mysite.com/data/git/linux-devel.git linux-devel
>
> cd linux-devel
>
> git remote add -m master -f linux-stable
> git://mysite.com/data/git/linux-stable.git
>
> git branch -r
>
>   linux-stable/HEAD
>   linux-stable/master
>   origin/HEAD
>   origin/master
>
> git checkout -b stable linux-stable/master
>
> git cherry-pick  b3b1eea69a   (a commit from linux-devel)
>
> git push linux-stable
>
> error: remote 'refs/heads/master' is not a strict subset of local ref
> 'refs/heads/master'. maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull
> first?
> error: failed to push to 'git://mysite.com/data/git/linux-stable.git'
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
>
> Sean
>