OK thanks I'm going to try this out, let me ask a question because it sounds my work flow is not good. I don't want to push the work done in my local branch to head/master, I want to push this work into "long-live" branch of a central repository, which belongs to "admin", and eventually this branch does not exist yet. my-central-repo: master, origin = linux-2.6.git branch1, branched at v2.6.21.7 branch2, branched at v2.6.21.7 -> I want (not admin) people to clone my-repo and work on branch1 and/or branch2. -> I want some people to add a new branch3 at v2.6.21.7 into my-central-repo. (This will not happen very often, can be restricted to admin) Maybe in this case it is common to define more "public" repositories: repo-branch1/ and repo-branch2/ I guess people could then clone repo-branchX and push the work done, and up to owner of my-central-repo to merge repo-branchX/master into my-central-repo/branchX? Auguste. 2009/10/10 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx>: > Auguste Mome <augustmome@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Hi, >> I have two repositories /home/user/linux and /home/user/dev/linux, >> same user on same machine. >> Here is how I create a local branch at v2.6.21.7 in /home/user/dev/linux, >> #pwd >> /home/user/dev/linux >> # git remote add l2621 >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.21.y.git >> # git fetch l2621 >> # git branch mylocal26217 v2.6.21.7 >> >> Now I would like to do the same from the other repository /home/user/linux: >> # pwd >> /home/user/linux >> # git remote add other /home/guerin/dev/git/linux-2.6 >> # git fetch other >> # git push /home/user/dev/git/linux-2.6 >> v2.6.21.7:refs/heads/new_feature_name26217 >> Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) >> error: Trying to write non-commit object > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> 170684ef0557d4b711a86595d31dcbebcb9d4ba2 to branch >> refs/heads/new_feature_name26217 >> To /home/user/dev/git/linux-2.6 >> ! [remote rejected] v2.6.21.7 -> new_feature_name26217 (failed to write) >> error: failed to push some refs to '/home/user/dev/git/linux-2.6' >> >> Maybe something to configure to authorize the creation of branch? > > You can't push tag to branch. > > > I'm not sure if what you are trying to do makes sense at all, but the > commit pointed by v2.6.21.7 is v2.6.21.7^{} > > -- > Jakub Narebski > Poland > ShadeHawk on #git > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html