On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Dun Peal <dunpealer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I need to share a symbolic reference - essentially, a named pointer to > another reference - among multiple repositories. > > As shown in the code below, I can successfully create a local > symbolic-ref `foo_ptr` to branch `foo`, but can't push it to a remote, > in this case `origin`: > > $ git branch foo; git symbolic-ref foo_ptr refs/heads/foo; git rev-parse foo_ptr > fbfec27dc6d42d48ca5d5b178caa34c666a4c39b > $ git push origin foo foo_ptr > error: dst ref refs/heads/foo receives from more than one src. > > Is there a clean and reliable way to do that, or are symbolic > references just not meant to be shared? There is no support for symbolic references in the network protocol, so they cannot currently be shared by git push or git fetch. -- 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