I have been having trouble with the following workflow. I am trying to push changes to a remote from a branch that is tracking it. git clone git://mysite.com/data/git/linux-devel.git linux-devel cd linux-devel git remote add -m master -f linux-stable git://mysite.com/data/git/linux-stable.git git branch -r linux-stable/HEAD linux-stable/master origin/HEAD origin/master git checkout -b stable linux-stable/master git cherry-pick b3b1eea69a (a commit from linux-devel) git push linux-stable error: remote 'refs/heads/master' is not a strict subset of local ref 'refs/heads/master'. maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull first? error: failed to push to 'git://mysite.com/data/git/linux-stable.git' Thanks for your help, Sean - 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