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Have a remote git bare repo that onto which I've pushed a branch from one machine, and pulled to another machine.
Made some changes on the other machine, trying to push those changes back to the remote bare repo, and I get the 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' error.
What's going on?
This isn't supposed to happen on a bare repo - there's nothing checked out on it.
The branches as seen from machine 2 are:
Fix
dev1
dev2
remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/dev1
remotes/origin/Fix
remotes/origin/dev1
remotes/origin/dev2
remotes/origin/master
'Fix' is the current branch on both dev machines.
When I originally pulled that branch on machine 2, I did:
git pull
git checkout -b Fix origin/Fix
I'm suspicious of the first 'remotes' line - seems that the HEAD should be pointing to my current branch, but it isn't. Think I'm missing something, here..
Update 1 I merged the 'Fix' branch down to the dev1 branch, and then pushd the 'dev1' branch - that worked ok (I was about to do that, anyway).
So, that was a workaround, but I think the real problem was that the HEAD wasn't tied to the current branch ('Fix'), but to an inactive branch ('dev1'). I'm not sure how to change the head on the remote repo?
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If git push origin master not working , all you need to do is edit that file with your favourite editor and change the URL = setting to your new location. Assuming the new repository is correctly set up and you have your URL right, you'll easily be able to push and pull to and from your new remote location.
The error message error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master is emitted by the remote repository and it means you're trying to push code to remote non-bare repository that has different code currently checked out in the working directory.
What is a bare repository? A bare repository is the same as default, but no commits can be made in a bare repository. The changes made in projects cannot be tracked by a bare repository as it doesn't have a working tree. A working tree is a directory in which all the project files/sub-directories reside.
From the Machine 2, to upload refs from local repository to remote repository you can use explicit refs in the push command:
git push origin Fix:refs/heads/Fix
After that, in the Machine 1, you should use the fetch command to obtain the remote refs
git fetch
In the list of branches (git branch -a), you will found origin/Fix (or remotes/origin/Fix), you can browser the content of the remote branch directly by using the checkout command:
git checkout origin/Fix
Make your changes, commit, etc... and then push it using the same command used in machine 2:
git push origin Fix:refs/heads/Fix
To track the branch (this is, create a local branch that "points" the remote branch, use the checkout command with --track option):
git checkout --track -b Fix origin/Fix
Then, you can work on local branch Fix and do push and pull without other arguments
git pull
git commit
git push
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