Cannot git clone a folder on a server and then edit and git push?

Question

I used Mercurial (Hg) before, and it was ok to do something like at the local PC:

hg clone ssh://peter@hostingcompany.com/~/mysite.com

and

Answer 1

You should only push to bare repositories (a bare repository has no working copy).

You have two solutions:

• pull from your remote repository (then it will ask for solving conflicts)
• make your remote repository a bare one

EDIT my guess that the remote repo has local modifications is wrong; don't know why you can't push, but the rest of my post is still valid: you shouldn't push to normal repos.