Thanks. Yea I was just looking at the man page trying to find the notation with the colon separated ref names. Is ":refs/heads/branch-foo" equivalent to just saying ":branch-foo" in the remote Git repo? Do I need the refs/heads piece? I'm trying to understand what a usual "git push origin branch-foo" equates to using your syntax. On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > remote2 would be the name of your remote repo, yes. > > origin/branch-foo would be equivalent to svn/branch-foo in your local > repo, if you did "git branch -a". It should be the name of one of the > git-svn created branches. > > refs/heads/branch-foo is telling git where to store the reference for > the branch within remote2. It does not need to exist already, and > should not in your case. > > The git-push man page has more in-depth explanations, if you're interested. > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 20:01, Bradley Wagner > <bradley.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> In your example, does "remote2" represent the name of my remote Git >> repo? What is "origin/branch-foo" and does the path >> "refs/heads/branch-foo" need to actually exist in my .git directory? >> >> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 06:36, Bradley Wagner >>> <bradley.wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Do I need to convert these remote tags/branches into local Git >>>> tags/branches before pushing them to my remote Git repo or is there a >>>> way to push remote branches directly to my remote Git repo? >>>> >>> >>> You don't need to "convert" the branches to local ones. git-push will >>> accept any ref your local repo knows about when you do a push. For >>> example "git push remote2 origin/branch-foo:refs/heads/branch-foo" >>> works just fine, even if you don't have a "local" branch called >>> "branch-foo", and it will push the branch-foo branch out to the >>> remote2 remote repository. >>> >>> The tags, you'll need to convert to _actual_ tags, instead of just >>> branches under a tags/ namespace. Unless you're fine with them >>> staying as pseudo-tags, then you can just push them out as you would >>> any other branch. >>> >>> -Jacob -- 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