Git newbie here.
created a new folder:
mkdir hello_master cd hello_master touch test.txt git init git add test.txt git commit test.txt then cloned the repository
git clone hello_master hello_local # made some changes to test.txt and committed it how do I push it to hello_master? if I do a git push, it is complaining saying I can't push to hello_master. But if I go to hello_master, I can pull and get all changes from hello_local.
What am I doing wrong?
Nothing. You just can't push to a non-bare repository. Because git wouldn't know what to do with the checked-out files.
It is only recommended that you do not push to a non-bare repo. There are ways to push to a non-bare repo ( of course! ):
1) The error message in itself would talk about setting the receive.denyCurrentBranch config to warn or ignore.
2) Checkout a new branch ( say temp) in the repo. Now you can push master or any other branch.
You provided not much information, but i suppose, you have 'push to non-bare repo' problem.
Using Git, you cannot push to non-bare repository (repository, which have working copy) to active branch, because somebody may be working in this branch and you can ruin his work.
Solution 1 is to make main repository bare;
solution 2 is to checkout hello_master to another branch;
solution 3 (from git help) : 'You can set 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'ignore' or 'warn' in the remote repository to allow pushing into its current branch; however, this is not recommended unless you arranged to update its work tree to match what you pushed in some other way.
I suspect the answer you're looking for is here: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#How_would_I_use_.22git_push.22_to_sync_out_of_a_host_that_I_cannot_pull_from.3F
but in brief, you can't push directly, you have to create a branch-ish-thing on the remote side. It looks like this: git push remote-box:/path/to/git/repo master:refs/remotes/name-of-local-box/master
Then when you log in to "remote-box", you can merge in changes you pushed from the other machine like this: git merge name-of-local-box/master