Being new to git I am probably not doing things correctly so pointers in the right direction would be useful. What I want to do make changes on my laptop and commit them to a remote repository. Here is what I have done, 1. Created a repository on my remote linux host, in a folder of cource code, by, git init git add * git commit 2. On my laptop I did a git clone pointing by ssh to the remote repo which downloaded all the files to my local system. 3. I changed a file locally and did a commit. 4. I then wanted to update the remote repo with my change, which I did with a git push, but that didn't work, getting this error, remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master[K remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository[K....... What am I doing wrong? I was following the tutorial at http://book.git-scm.com/3_distributed_workflows.html I did search for this issue in this list but didn't understand the responses. Rupert -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Commit-changes-to-remote-repository-tp7185551p7185551.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