Re: Commit changes to remote repository

Carlos Martín Nieto [off-list ref] writes:

You're trying to push to a non-bare repository and change the
currently active branch, which can cause problems, so git isn't
letting you. There's an explanation of bare and non-bare at
http://bare-vs-nonbare.gitrecipes.de/ but the short and sweet is that
you should init the repo you want to use as the central point with
--bare and do modifications locally and then push there.

An alternative is to push to a temporary, non-checked-out branch.

I sometimes do

  laptop$ git push desktop HEAD:incomming

and then

  desktop$ git merge incomming

The push does not disturb the worktree on the desktop, and the merge is
done manually on the receiving machine.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/