Re: help with git push of single branch

[Kenneth Nielsen <k nielsen81 gmail com>]

Ahh off course. The first argument after push is the destination,
which I can just write as the origin of the pull. Thank you guys.

Regards Kenneth Nielsen

2009/5/30 Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>:
> On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 22:40 +0200, Kenneth Nielsen wrote:
>> Hallo
>>
>> Now it seems it is my turn to ask for help with git. What I did is the
>> following, I have a local clone of gtk+ with two branches from the
>> last time I had to commit a translation, master and gtk-2-16. Now I
>> had to commit a new translation to master, but do nothing with the
>> gtk-2-16 branch. So I did:
>>
>> git checkout master
>> git pull --rebase
>> copy translation in and run intltool-update
>> git commit da.po -m "Updated Danish translation" --author "..Left out.."
>> git status (looked good)
>> git push
>>
>> but upon this last command I got the following error output:
>> Counting objects: 7, done.
>> Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
>> Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 10.43 KiB, done.
>> Total 4 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0)
>> To ssh://kennethn git gnome org/git/gtk+
>>    64b8f4e..d2cd949  master -> master
>>  ! [rejected]        gtk-2-16 -> gtk-2-16 (non-fast forward)
>> error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://kennethn git gnome org/git/gtk+'
>>
>> and return code 1, which will make my commit script complain. Now I
>> think I understand why it complains, it is probably because the
>> gtk-2-16 branch is behind the server one, and so even though I don't
>> want to commit anything to it, it still complains. Now my question is,
>> can I limit the push command to a single branch? Something like
>>
>> git push master
>>
>> I have searched a little on the internet, but most places it seems
>> that the guides say that you need more arguments after push to do
>> this, but I don't understand which or why. I hope someone can help.
>
> If you're going to give git push arguments to tell it
> what to push, you also have to tell it where to push
> to.  So the command you want is:
>
> git push origin master
>
> --
> Shaun
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