I'm trying to explain this behavior to a co-worker, and how to solve it: % git pull Already up-to-date. % git push error: remote 'refs/remotes/origin/flexify' is not a strict subset of localref 'refs/remotes/origin/flexify'. maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull first? I believe he is using git 1.5.0 and that the above was tried from the master branch. So, I'm confused: I would have thought the way you solve the problem in step 2 is by executing step 1. Would he need to do this: % git checkout flexify % git pull flexify:flexify % git checkout master % git push Bill - 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