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

If you still want to push to a checked out branch of a remote non-bare repo, it is now possible (Git 2.3.0, February 2015), provided there is no modified files in the target working tree.

In that remote repo, do:

git config receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead

It is more secure than config receive.denyCurrentBranch=ignore: it will allow the push only if you are not overriding modification in progress.

See commit 1404bcb by Johannes Schindelin (dscho):

receive-pack: add another option for receive.denyCurrentBranch

When synchronizing between working directories, it can be handy to update the current branch via 'push' rather than 'pull', e.g. when pushing a fix from inside a VM, or when pushing a fix made on a user's machine (where the developer is not at liberty to install an ssh daemon let alone know the user's password).

The common workaround – pushing into a temporary branch and then merging on the other machine – is no longer necessary with this patch.

The new option is:

updateInstead

Update the working tree accordingly, but refuse to do so if there are any uncommitted changes.