Re: [PATCH] Include a git-push example for creating a remote branch

Miles Bader [off-list ref] wrote:

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Many users get confused when `git push origin master:foo` works
when foo already exists on the remote repository but are confused
when foo doesn't exist as a branch and this form does not create
the branch foo.

Hmm, what _does_ it do in that case...?

error: dst refspec experimental does not match any existing ref on the remote and does not start with refs/.

-- 
Shawn.