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clwen
clwen

Reputation: 20919

How to solve "error: unable to push to unqualified destination: HEAD"

I have a revision like A -> B -> C -> D -> E. I tried to rollback to C and commit that as a new revision F but it seems it's not the right way to do it: I git checkout C and then do some changes and then git commit. However, when I git push origin HEAD it complains that:

error: unable to push to unqualified destination: HEAD The destination refspec neither matches an existing ref on the remote nor begins with refs/, and we are unable to guess a prefix based on the source ref.

As this SO question suggests, I tried git fetch -p origin but it didn't work. Still got the same error message.

My question is that how can I get rid of this situation and fulfill my original goal (rollback to C and commit that to F)?

Also, as this question suggests, I can:

git rm -r .
git checkout HEAD~3 .
git commit

but I don't really want to git rm -r . because there are a lot of untracked but useful stuff.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5339

Answers (1)

Carl Norum
Carl Norum

Reputation: 225052

It sounds like you're looking for git revert. In your case:

git revert E D

Afterwards you can rebase to squash the two reverting commits together.

Upvotes: 2

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