$ git push origin HEAD:newbranch error: unable to push to unqualified destination: newbranch The destination refspec neither matches an existing ref on the remote nor begins with refs/, and we are unable to guess a prefix based on the source ref. error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://example.com/srv/git/project.git' This worked previously[1]. Local git version 1.7.5, remote git version 1.7.2.3. 1. I recently upgraded locally from 1.7.4.x -- 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