Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@xxxxxxxx> writes: > You're trying to push to a non-bare repository and change the > currently active branch, which can cause problems, so git isn't > letting you. There's an explanation of bare and non-bare at > http://bare-vs-nonbare.gitrecipes.de/ but the short and sweet is that > you should init the repo you want to use as the central point with > --bare and do modifications locally and then push there. An alternative is to push to a temporary, non-checked-out branch. I sometimes do laptop$ git push desktop HEAD:incomming and then desktop$ git merge incomming The push does not disturb the worktree on the desktop, and the merge is done manually on the receiving machine. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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