J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:48:54PM +0200, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
The central shared repo is called project-shared.git and contains,
for example, the following branches:
master
next
work/topicA
work/topicB
...
Developers clone the repo and check out the branches they are
interested in. For example a developer may want to track next
and work on topicB:
git clone ssh://central.example.com/project-shared.git project
cd project
git checkout -b next origin/next
git checkout -b work/topicB origin/work/topicB
This is sufficient. No adding of remotes is needed. Neither
is a private repository on a server required. After cloning,
developers have all they need.
Later work/topicB has new commits and should be pushed:
git push origin
The default behaviour of push is fine. Only matching branches
are pushed.
_But_, origin is a shared repository. Therefore branches may
have advanced and git push may report
error: remote 'refs/heads/next' is not a strict subset of local ref
'refs/heads/next'. maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull first?
So here's the problem. The developer didn't do anything wrong.
But git complaints with an error. Git also recommends to run
pull, so the developer runs "git pull". But this doesn't help,
because it's only updating work/topicB and "git push" will
complain with the very same error.
What you need to do is
git checkout <local-branch>
git pull
git checkout <local-branch2>
git pull
...
for every local branch.
Or just
git push origin work/topicB
since that's all you really wanted to push anyway.
git pull. Not git push. git pull operates on one working branch
at a time (by default), whereas git push uploads and fast-forwards
all the common branches (by default). I want git pull to work like
git push.
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Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@xxxxxx
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