Excellent!! The descriptions was wonderful, and the solutions worked. Yippee!!
Michael On Feb 14, 12:27 pm, Konstantin Khomoutov <flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:34:05 -0800 (PST) > > Veloz <michaelve...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...]> I did a little testing whereby a setup a bare repo on my machine and > > added an origin to my source repo to point to this bare repo. Then I > > checked out some branch on my source repo, say "desiredbranch" tried > > to do a "push neworigin desiredbranch". > > > The push worked fine but then when I cloned this newly populated bare > > repo (to see how a working repo would look like, based in the newly > > populated bare repo) I I got this message: > > > warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout. > > [...] > > Explanation: the "HEAD" ref in a bare repo points to a physical ref > (usually a branch) which, when someone clones that repo, should be made > the default in the resulting clone. > When you initialize a bare repo its HEAD ref is set to point to the > "master" branch but the branch itself does not exist (obviously). > When you do > $ git push neworigin desiredbranch > Git creates "desiredbranch" in the remote repo, but its HEAD ref > remains pointing to a non-existing "master" branch. > > So, there are two ways to fix the situation: > at first, do > $ cd /path/to/that/bare/repo > and then either > $ git branch -m desiredbranch master > or > $ git update-ref HEAD refs/heads/desiredbranch > and then re-clone the bare repo. > > The first method simply renames "desiredbranch" to "master", the second > updates the HEAD ref to point to "desiredbranch". > > Another way would be to re-create the bare repo and push your desired > branch like this: > $ git push neworigin desiredbranch:master > so that it ends up being named "master" in the repote repo. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
