Thanks a lot for the prompt answer. Following your advice I read the progit online chapter about branches and it explained to me about git branch lilt origin/lilt as Maaartin explains. So I am testing it now. Thanks Iannis Z. -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/pushing-to-a-remote-branch-that-one-does-not-own-tp5940751p5941621.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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