I thougth I could create a new branch on the server using: # > git push ssh://devsrv/var/git/os2kernel.git linus:refs/linus Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. updating 'refs/linus' using 'refs/heads/linus' from 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 to bbf25010f1a6b761914430f5fca081ec8c7accd1 Generating pack... Done counting 0 objects. Writing 0 objects... Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) error: refusing to create funny ref 'refs/linus' locally ng refs/linus funny refname error: failed to push to 'ssh://devsrv/var/git/os2kernel.git' but that doesn't work. Am I doing this wrong? git 1.5.3.4 Jocke - 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