pushing to a git repository does not work

Question

I am just starting out with GIT (i\'m coming from cvs) and would like to set up something akin to cvs/svn with Git. I performed the following steps:

cd o:/r         


        

Answer 1

This happened to us a few weeks ago. It means that you have a working directory checked out in your origin repository and you cannot push to overwrite.

at the origin you need to bare the repository. I don't know of a way to do it with one command. What I did (at the origin repository)

> mv repository repository.old
> git clone --bare repository.old repository

I see that the origin in your case is the o:/repository. The origin, should not be a checked out working copy, so you can init a bare repository or copy as per above. To get the scenario you described to pass:

cd o:/repository
git init  --bare

cd 
git clone o:/repository

git push origin master

this should work just fine for you:

good reading: http://www.gitready.com/advanced/2009/02/01/push-to-only-bare-repositories.html