Re: can't create a branch on remote

OK thanks I'm going to try this out, let me ask a question because it
sounds my work flow is not good.
I don't want to push the work done in my local branch to head/master,
I want to push this work into
"long-live" branch of a central repository, which belongs to "admin",
and eventually this branch does not exist yet.
my-central-repo: master, origin = linux-2.6.git
                        branch1, branched at v2.6.21.7
                        branch2, branched at v2.6.21.7
-> I want (not admin) people to clone my-repo and work on branch1
and/or branch2.
-> I want some people to add a new branch3 at v2.6.21.7 into my-central-repo.
    (This will not happen very often, can be restricted to admin)

Maybe in this case it is common to define more "public" repositories:
 repo-branch1/ and repo-branch2/
I guess people could then clone repo-branchX and push the work done,
and up to owner of my-central-repo
to merge repo-branchX/master into my-central-repo/branchX?

Auguste.



2009/10/10 Jakub Narebski [off-list ref]:

Auguste Mome [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Hi,
I have two repositories  /home/user/linux and /home/user/dev/linux,
same user on same machine.
Here is how I create a local branch at v2.6.21.7 in /home/user/dev/linux,
#pwd
/home/user/dev/linux
# git remote add l2621
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.21.y.git
# git fetch l2621
# git branch mylocal26217  v2.6.21.7

Now I would like to do the same from the other repository /home/user/linux:
# pwd
/home/user/linux
# git remote add other /home/guerin/dev/git/linux-2.6
# git fetch other
# git push /home/user/dev/git/linux-2.6
    v2.6.21.7:refs/heads/new_feature_name26217
Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
error: Trying to write non-commit object

 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

quoted

170684ef0557d4b711a86595d31dcbebcb9d4ba2 to branch
refs/heads/new_feature_name26217
To /home/user/dev/git/linux-2.6
 ! [remote rejected] v2.6.21.7 -> new_feature_name26217 (failed to write)
error: failed to push some refs to '/home/user/dev/git/linux-2.6'

Maybe something to configure to authorize the creation of branch?

You can't push tag to branch.


I'm not sure if what you are trying to do makes sense at all, but the
commit pointed by v2.6.21.7 is v2.6.21.7^{}

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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